Kumar talked to IGs, DIGs, SPs and DMs via video conferencing and directed them to maintain rule of law, saying there should be "no compromise in that regard".
A day after taking the oath of office, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday held a marathon meeting on the law and order situation and stressed to senior civil and police officials that "there shall be no compromise on the rule of law". Kumar talked to IGs, DIGs, SPs and DMs via video conferencing and directed them to maintain rule of law, saying there should be "no compromise in that regard".
The Bihar chief minister told reporters after the three- hour meeting that he has given clear instructions to officials that "crime has to be curbed in all circumstances".
"Whoever is breaking the law is a criminal and should be dealt with according to the law irrespective of his standing and position," said Kumar, who has kept the home portfolio with himself.
It is significant that Kumar's first official engagement after his swearing-in on Friday was a meeting on the law and order situation in the state given that he had faced rival parties' barbs of a "return of jungle raj" over JD(U)'s poll tie-up with RJD, whose 15-year rule drew claims that the law and order situation had worsened in Bihar.
Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav was not present at the meeting, which was attended by Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh and state police chief PK Thakur. The chief minister stressed on the need for a scientific approach for faster investigation of crimes. He also emphasised the continuation of the practice of the holding of camp by Circle Officers and Station House Officers every week to solve land dispute cases.
Kumar told officials that the DM and SP would be held responsible for any communal incidents and warned that the response should be quick for quelling communal tension. He also stressed on expeditious trial and conviction, saying that it had yielded good results in the past.
Meanwhile, on the day when Kumar held a state-level review of the crime situation, Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan and senior Bihar BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi paid a visit to Lalganj in Vaishali district where an SHO was killed earlier this week by a mob following the death of two persons in a road accident. One person was also allegedly killed in police firing on protesters.
Paswan later talked to reporters in Patna and demanded a judicial probe into the alleged communal clash in Lalganj. The LJP chief alleged that the district administration was acting "under political pressure in the wake of the incident and booking party supporters at the behest of a JD(U) leader who lost the poll".
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