Editorial
Punish the killers
It is state's responsibility to protect its citizens
Reactions from the fathers of the three among the killers of Biswajit Das have exposed how the politics of the day has been brutalising the young generation. Little wonder, seeing what monsters have been made out of their sons, they disowned their children outright. And as any responsible fathers would do, they wanted punishment to be meted out to their errant sons.
Unfortunately, little progress has been made so far in bringing murderers to justice. Far from doing that, the government, or the ruling party for that matter, is giving the impression of being in a denial mode.
First it said, the killers were not any more members of the ruling party's student front as they had been expelled from it.
But that was the last thing that the parents and relatives of the victim as well as the people at large have been expecting from the government. Whatever the identity of the killers, the people only want immediate steps to arrest them and bring them to justice.
Second, the media has been informed by no less a person than the home minister that until Tuesday morning, eight persons had been arrested in connection with Biswajit's killing. However, at the same time, we are also told that those involved in the murder were identified and that efforts were on to nab them. Who have then have been arrested, if the identified cuprits are yet to be caught? The puzzle has been somewhat complicated by the officer-in- chrge of Sutrapur police, who differed on the question of arrests.
When the parents could recognise their sons committing the crime from the media, accept the truth and want to have them punished, it is not understandable why the authorities are waffling.
The man in the street is left confused about what is happening in the aftermath of the dastardly murder.
It is the state's responsibility to protect its citizens. Therefore, we are looking forward to the government's all-out efforts to bring a speedy and satisfactory end to the murder episode by punishing the criminals.
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