Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday strongly condemned crimes against women, calling them “unpardonable” and emphasized that negligence should be punished. Speaking at Lakhpati Didi Sammelan in Maharashtra, he assured that the central government would support state governments in addressing these crimes and highlighted new provisions for registering e-FIRs in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

A day after an NRI was shot at inside his house here, police on Sunday arrested five people, including the father of the victim’s first wife, in connection with the incident.

PM Modi’s comments came at a time when thousands of women took to the streets across the country, demanding justice for the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkata.