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XLucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police has intensified its operations against criminals, neutralising or arresting several wanted suspects in nearly a dozen encounters in the last 20 days, the state government said on Tuesday.

On Monday, the police eliminated Shehzad alias Nikki in Meerut, who carried a bounty of Rs 25,000 for a heinous crime against a minor girl, under Mission Shakti 5.0. Earlier, strong action was taken against miscreants involved in firing outside actress Disha Patani's residence in Bareilly, it said.

Since the Yogi Adityanath government assumed office, police have maintained a zero-tolerance policy toward crime, the statement said.

Over the past eight and a half years, as many as 15,726 encounters occurred, and 256 hardened criminals have been eliminated, 31,960

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