Editorial
Limon harassment sees no end
State should step in to protect him
As if not to let Limon off the lawmen's hook, charge has been framed under juvenile crime prevention act against him in an old case lodged more than a year before.
We wonder why he is being hounded by a state apparatus under the watch of an elected democratic government.
His travails seem endless.
On March 23 last year members of the anti-crime squad Rab shot this college student in the leg claiming him to be a member of a notorious criminal gang. The adolescent from a poverty-stricken family was crippled forever with his left leg amputated in a Dhaka hospital.
Amid wide media coverage on the victimisation of the boy, the High Court in May last year issued a rule upon the government to explain in two weeks why a probe commission should not be formed to look into cause of the Rab's firing on Limon. Even the fate of the case that Limon's mother filed some two weeks after the incident against six Rab personnel is still unknown.
Now while the crippled boy is trying to concentrate on his studies, as his harassed family is making efforts to pull itself together, submission of chargesheet against him in the Jhalakathi judicial magistrate's court has piled on his miseries. This brings to the fore the unrelenting wrath of a state agency against a helpless individual making a mockery of the rule of law.
Complete lack of compliance with high court ruling calls for enforcing accountability of the law-enforcers concerned. Limon's mother's desperate bid to get justice should draw the attention of the higher judiciary as well as the government for suitable action to save Limon from further victimisation and punish those responsible for his plight. If this is not done citizens' confidence in the state as their protector will only be shaken.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel.
Comments