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NEW DELHI: Cow smugglers and those indulging in cow slaughter must be booked under the National Security Act, Uttar Pradeshs director general of police Sulkhan Singh has said in an order issued to senior police officials in the state.

There is a need to clamp down on cow slaughter and transport of cows for the same. The National Security Act (NSA), 1980 or Gangsters Act must be invoked against criminals indulging in the same, the DGP said in an order to all senior police officials present in a review meeting in Lucknow on Monday.

The Act allows for detention of any persons for three months or more with a view to preventing them from acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of the state or from acting in any manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order. The Centre has to be informed within seven days by the state government about any case of invocation of the NSA.

There have been cases of right-wing groups taking the law into their own hands to stop purported cow smuggling and incidents of lynching of people undertaking transportation of cows have been reported. Cow slaughter and transportation of cows for slaughter is banned in UP.

The DGP spelt out several other directives to improve the law and order scenario in the state, for which the new Yogi Adityanath government has been facing flak.

The directives include transferring out police officials posted in one district for long and taking departmental action against police officials having connections with criminals.

The DGP ordered that police must make efforts to get bails cancelled for mafia and criminal elements, and maintain a proper register with a record of known enmities and disputes in an area to take preventive action if required. He ordered that policing in Noida and Ghaziabad should be better than in Delhi and that efforts be made to ensure disciplined traffic and policemen turning out in wellkept uniforms.

The DGP also directed that police posts be set up outside jails to keep a watch on visitors to known criminals lodged behind bars. Duties of police officials accompanying criminals to courts should also be frequently changed, he ordered, so that no official accompanies any criminal regularly.

As a people-friendly measure, the DGP directed that a police report be given within a week in case of inquiries for passport or character verification and strict action be taken in case of delay on the part of the police.

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