Editorial
Police highhandedness
Judge falling victim!
In the most recent incident of police highhandedness an Additional Session's Judge of Narshingdi district court was manhandled by them outside the court premises on Sunday. This is outrageous behaviour towards a judge whose position calls for respect.
Reportedly, the said judge was initially stopped at the gate and the police on duty had wanted to search his handbag. Everyone entering the court was being searched as part of the extra security measure taken on that day in view of the hearing on the murder case of a municipal commissioner of Narshingdi. We understand that the judge had given out his identity thrice. He was perhaps initially hesitant when the police insisted on seeing his identity card but did so eventually but could not escape the wrath of another policeman who came over and hit him with his helmet.
What we fail to understand is why the police have to be aggressive at the slightest opportunity. Why is the threshold of patience of our law enforcing agencies so low that they do not even care to listen to a person that the police have to deal with every day of the week in the line of duty?
What we find equally repulsive is the disingenuous practice among offending policemen to spin cock and bull stories and offer all sorts of puerile excuses, and put the blame on the other party for all that had happened. We find the police version that the steel helmet accidentally hit the judge ridiculous. The errant policemen should be made examples of. The reported suspension of three policemen cannot simply make up for the outrage they committed.
We wonder if ever the police will learn to be people friendly.
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