LUCKNOW, Oct. 15 -- Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh over the recently released data on police encounters, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday accused it of attempting to create a misleading perception about law and order in the state.

Addressing a press conference at the SP headquarters in Lucknow, Yadav said, "The BJP government only wants to create a perception that encounters have improved law and order. If that were true, why haven't heinous crimes stopped in the state yet? Why don't bulldozers run on Akhilesh Dubey's assets? Why has no encounter been carried out in that case? These encounter figures are meant to scare people. Nothing more. Many innocent people have been ki...