India, Sept. 15 -- Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath spoke to actor Disha Patani's father on Sunday evening and assured him that the police would take steps for their safety following the recent firing incident at the family's Bareilly residence, the actor's father Jagdish Singh Patani said on Monday.

Jagdish Singh Patani, a retired deputy superintendent of police, said the chief minister told him that the people of the state stood with the family. "There will be no lapse in your family's security," the chief minister said, according to Patani.

Earlier, the chief minister's officer on special duty (OSD) Rajbhushan Singh had also contacted the family and assured them that the perpetrators would not escape justice. "The accused...