Mugging on the rise

This refers to The Daily Star news report dated 9th April 2014. It said, bike-riding muggers shot a bkash employee and snatched away around Tk 10 lakh from him on Rokeya Sarani in the capital's Mirpur on April 8.
I would like to add that such mugging has now become the order of the day as I had also fallen victim to such muggers on April 6. I was returning home after a medical check-up from Popular Diagnostic Centre at Dhanmondi, Road no: 2 at about 9 pm when suddenly a man bumped into me. I said it was ok. But he didn't leave and started talking to me about his power and which party he belonged to. He held my hand and let me feel his revolver and bullets and demanded taka 50,000/-. I told him that I had only taka 2000/- in my wallet. He took the money and vanished into the darkness.
Not   a single week passes without a Daily Star report on mugging. It is clear that law and order has gone from bad to worse. But our top leaders say every now and then that the law and order is now better than any time in the past. It is imperative that the government takes immediate measures to improve the   situation in the Capital.
Abu Imran
Azimpur, Dhaka