Ending extrajudicial killings

One could not agree more with the National Human Rights Commission chief that extrajudicial killings must stop immediately. No civilised country can allow such heinous and illegal acts by the custodians of law and order and the protectors of life and property of the people to go on unabated.
In fact the national human rights boss has echoed our sentiments while speaking at a function on February 15 that the explanations offered by the agencies are cooked up fiction. In fact these are so odiously repetitive that the public have now become all too familiar with them. It is difficult to accept the statement of the police and the administration that seem to be in a denial mode regarding these killings. It is difficult to understand how accused in murder cases end up dead with bullet holes in their bodies. At least seven prime suspects of murder cases have died in mysterious circumstances since January 18, according to reports carried in this newspaper yesterday.
While we appreciate the NHRC chairman's sentiments on the matter, we feel he should go beyond merely calling upon the law enforcing agencies to stop the killings. It is his bounden duty to investigate the killings, if the concerned agencies are reluctant to do so, and get to the bottom of the matter. And the government to this end, if it really wants to put a stop to this horrendous practice, must offer all necessary help for the NHRC to investigate into these deaths. The abhorrent practice must stop immediately.