Lucknow, Feb. 21 -- Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Khanna, on Thursday, highlighted through poetic lines, how the Yogi Adityanath government, by adopting a zero-tolerance policy, took decisive action against crime and criminals to strengthen the state's law and order situation which was deteriorating before 2017.
"This approach is now being praised across the country and internationally," he said.
Presenting details of the government's aggressive crackdown on organised crime, Khanna said: "From 2017 to December 2024, the state successfully prosecuted 68 identified mafia criminals, leading to life imprisonment for 31, including two sentenced to death. The judiciary also delivered justice in 27,425 cases of crimes against women and m...