Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today sought to justify instances of public parade of criminals by the police, asserting "goondas" have no human rights and that the state government had zero tolerance for crimes against women.
He said that those who eve-tease and harass girls and women and make it difficult for them to step out of their homes cannot claim human rights.
"There are no human rights of goondas (anti-social elements)," Chouhan told reporters here. "The state government has zero tolerance for crimes against women."
Asked about the police allegedly dilly-dallying a case related to the suicide of a woman, whose kin had claimed she was married to the son of PWD Minister Rampal Singh, Chouhan said, "Law will take its own course."
"Agricultural production has gone up in the state and the government is now making efforts to provide beneficial prices to farmers. We are planning to set up an agency to explore the export of agricultural produce."
He said there was no anti-incumbency against the government in the state and that recent defeats of the BJP in bypolls could not be taken as an indicator of it. "But we have taken the outcome of these polls seriously."
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