M Shivraj Singh Chouhan directed officials to withdraw cases against criminals from weaker sections, who are lodged in jails.
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government has decided to release criminals from impoverished backgrounds, who are lodged in jails for petty offences.
The decision comes ahead of the assembly polls due later this year.
Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, during a law and order review meeting yesterday, asked officials concerned to direct district collectors and SPs to begin a process to withdraw cases against criminals from poor and weaker sections, who are lodged in jails, and ensure their early release.
Chouhan also directed officials to prepare a list of such cases by July 31 in all districts of the state, an official from the public relation department said today.
Chief Secretary B P Singh, Director General of Police Rishi Kumar Shukla and Officer on Special Duty Adarsh Katiyar were present in the meeting”. – PTI
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist, Barnala (Punjab)
For BJP anywhere in the nation, winning polls is the sole aim ! It is so because it is its primary task whereas all other issues are of secondary nature !
Releasing criminals’ decision in Madhya Pradesh by Mr.ShivRaj Singh Chauhan has not come as a surprise ‘ There can be more such like hollow, unjustified but wooing public decisions in the offing !
May be in the next round of decisions, the popular Vyapam Scam alleged accused be offered some sort of relief or relaxation on some
flimsy or fictitious ground !
It is now going to be a season of surprises and election time populist measures ! There would not be any taboo to stoop to the lowest extent by hook or crook to first win assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh and then move on to carry the same flag forward in the run up to the Marathon- 2019 Lok Sabha Polls !
BJP’s only aim now is to win polls at all, nothing else ! That is why its decisions will be guided by that end only in view whether right or wrong does not matter in the bargain?
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist
Pom Anm Nest, Barnala (Punjab)