"The decision, whether taken by the government or any social organisation, must be in the interest of the people," he told reporters when asked to comment on khap panchayat's diktat.
In a Taliban-type diktat, a khap panchayat in Baghpat on Friday banned love marriages and barred women below 40 years from going out for shopping and using mobile phones.
Akhilesh was confronted by reporters after he attended a function of a private college in Meharban Singh Purva area, some 25-km from here.
