With the spurt in crime against women in Haryana, the Congress on Tuesday said the law and order situation in the state was “worrisome”.
Expressing concern over rape incidents being reported from different parts of the state over the past few days, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said four to five incidents of rape being reported within a span of just 48 hours is shocking.
He said the party legislators will meet on Wednesday to discuss the burning issue and “rising crime graph” of the state.
“The law and order situation in Haryana is worrisome. The crime graph has been going up during the past three years of Khattar government rule,” Hooda said.
He said a party delegation will be meeting the state governor tomorrow to apprise him about the present situation.
“We demand that this government should resign on moral grounds and if it fails to do so, the governor should dismiss it,” Hooda told reporters.
The CM, Manohar Lal Khattar, on Monday directed the police force to crack the whip to foil the designs of perpetrators of such heinous crimes.
In a statement, expressing his deep anguish and concern over the crime against women, Khattar ordered the police force, especially the officers, to set up a special team to arrest the criminals and ensure that they got strict punishment.
Taking a serious note of the crime against women reported, the CM directed all police officers to ensure that whenever any incident of crime against women is reported, case should be registered immediately and they must take swift action.
They have also been directed to step up vigilance and patrolling of the isolated and vulnerable areas.
He said the state government had also decided to centralize its Women Helpline number-1091 to provide 24-hour immediate response to any women in need across the state.