Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath says UPCOCA will be the remedy for crime:

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath says UPCOCA will be the remedy for crime:

Context

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said the proposed UPCOCA bill would help check crime and sought cooperation from the Opposition parties for its passage

Views of UP CM

• Speaking on an adjournment notice on law and order in the Legislative Assembly, the chief minister said the bill, likely to be tabled soon, would be a remedy for crime in the state
• We are bringing the UPCOCA bill…if you want the mafias to be finished…we expect you to cooperate (to pass it)
• Reiterating that there would be no laxity on the issue of security, corruption and law and order, he said crime in the state was at its lowest and the people’s mandate in the country was its example
• He referred to the recent National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) report and lashed out at the state of affairs under the previous government when as many as 31 riots took place in one year and no FIRs were filed

Backdrop

The Uttar Pradesh government recently approved a draft of a UPCOCA bill which was on the lines of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) to combat land mafia, mining mafia and organised crime