Chandigarh, Aug. 28 -- Rejecting allegations that the Haryana government has failed to take effective measures to strengthen law and order, chief minister Nayab Singh Saini said that the government has been pursuing a policy of zero tolerance towards crime, backed by full operational freedom to the police for swift, lawful, and effective action.

Saini was replying to a calling attention notice of Indian National Lok Dal (NLD) MLAs Aditya Devilal and Arjun Chautala, who had raised the issue of "deteriorating situation of law and order in the state".

In their calling attention notice, the INLD legislators said that "incidents of murder, robbery, dacoity, extortion, human trafficking, crimes against Dalit women" in various districts of the...