Editorial
Gunning of two young men in broad daylight
Police needs to expand its surveillance
The blatant manner in which two youths were shot dead by four motorcycle riders at an isolated spot in Sudkhira village in Manikganj is shocking as well as horrifying.
What sends chills down the spine of peace loving citizens is that this is not for the first time that such a scary incident has taken place. Crimes like a mob beating up suspected robbers to death, kidnapping and killing for ransom, robbery with murders taking place in broad daylight, enforced disappearances, killing women after gang-rape, etc are all a stark reminder of where law and order has plummeted.
How unsafe a place the society has become for the citizenry! In many cases, culprits are repeating their crimes with impunity taking advantage of lack of police vigil.
In all fairness to them it must be said that the police have limited strength, that too spread thin on a variety of assignments. It is too much to expect them to keep track of every brewing incident even in the remotest parts of the country.
But what is expected of them is that in the wake of an incident, in the very least, they should show energetic action and some results in ferreting out culprits.
In this particular case of twin shooting of youths to death, it seems the murderers were not unknown to the victims. The ease with which the killers could get away with the murder in that remote village shows that the remoter a place from the urban centre, the weaker the vigilance of the law-enforcers.
So, it is important that the number and frequency of police patrols on the highways as well as smaller roads branching into the upazila levels should also be increased.
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