Killer driver

A reader, Dhaka

Your staff correspondent's front-page report of May 29 indicates very clearly that there is a criminal nexus, based on corruption and malpractices between the police and the owners of the transport company! If not so, then as reported why till May 28 police did not contact the owners of the bus to find out all particulars of the driver and helper concerned. They should be rather held responsible to trace and hand the culprits over for punishment. This was not an accident, but deliberate murder of a knocked down and totally stunned student, trying to recover from an agonising incident, and not physically and mentally fit enough, to move out from there! Will the government urgently look into this potentially dangerous situation, and get third parties to deeply investigate the matter; in the overall interest of law, order and justice; to contain the dangerous situation from getting further worse. By the way, who said that we are short of police personnel? I read something regarding it in the dailies a few days ago, that the police are short of personnel! The photograph alongside the report of the correspondent showed in colour; no less than ten 'very busy' policemen, possibly doing 'important police' duties for protecting law and order etc!