Editorial
A killing spree?
Arrest and punish the killers
The ghastly murder of Nishat Banu in front of her old mother in the city's Topkhana area is the height of perverse criminality fed on sheer greed for property. It is also reflective of lack of security of citizens owing to slack in law and order.
Three miscreants strangled Banu to death in what was one of a spate of gruesome killings in the capital lately. Barely a week has passed since police recovered the mutilated body parts of a young girl from a city hotel, which was another horrendous instance of a killing motivated by personal vengeance. The situation is no better outside the capital. In Mehendiganj Upazilla under Barisal division some locally influential people abducted a young girl after critically injuring her parents with sharp weapons on Thursday.
As we understand it, these killing incidents and the kidnapping were caused on purely personal grounds. We nonetheless believe those were largely motivated by a culture of impunity. It is with a deep sense of shock that we of late have noted that murderers have gone scot-free in a number of instances either for lack of evidence or police inaction. Such undesirable trends only serve to spread a sense of immunity among criminals and miscreants. Therefore, we demand immediate arrest of the killers and abductors.
Compared with other major forms of violence and crime that attract wider attention, somehow the abductions and murders referred to above tend to recede in the background. But we believe such crimes require prompt legal action to impart a sense of security to households and stem the dehumanising trend.
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