News Desk :
Every day is eventful now in the country with strange and dreaded incidents in which people have hardly anything to celebrate but to experience deeper remorse on the nature of killings and other forms of cruelty in public life.
Killing of ruling party men by ruling party elements is becoming reckless slowly taking over the killing of opposition leaders and workers in recent years.
It is clear from that for our failure others have made the killing and corruption safe in Bangladesh. The professional police do not hesitate to kill without bothering to destroy evidence to know more about others involved in the crime.
A Chatra League leader killed a boy and police killed the killer in an encounter in few hours was a news headline on Wednesday in the city. Another Jubo League leader who shot a mother and her unborn child has been killed by police in another encounter in Magura was yet another news in national dailies yesterday.
In the financial front ‘BASIC Bank Sinking’ from high level frauds captured news headlines on Tuesday in most national dailies. Meanwhile, state owned banks have been ruthlessly swindled over the past several years and now functioning on regular recapitalization of their capital.
Another news headline on Wednesday said ACC is probing against CBA leader of Sonali Bank for embezzlement of Tk 100 crore. In political front, news head line in the day’s news papers said elderly BNP leader and former minister MK Anwar has been denied bail and put to prison apparently on a frame up case. Another headline said police did not allow former Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University Prof. Emajuddin Ahmed to hold a press conference in the city on Tuesday. Journalist Shawkat Mahmud was also arrested on a political case and put on remand.
Another journalist Probir Shikder was arrested for a post on the social media accusing a minister for making his life unsafe. He was handcuffed and he claimed he was blind folded in the police station and put on rigorous interrogation.
TV news footage said four persons were hacked to death yesterday at Chapainobabgonj by people for alleged attempt to steal a motor cycle. Three others were also hacked to death in Norshindi and Gazipur, another report said.
The arrest of three persons including a British national of Bangladeshi origin captured the headline in all dailies yesterday while police claimed that they have finally unearthed the network killing bloggers in the country.
Another news said three lawyers of Bangladesh Supreme Court were arrested yesterday on alleged groud of financing militant activities.
Meanwhile, police claim that they used all CCTV cameras during the Ekushey Boi Mela proved unfounded when blogger Avivijt was killed and women were molested in front of TSC in the Dhaka University campus. Reports said 64 of the 75 CCTV cameras were not connected to the control room. News report on Wednesday said the local leader of Bangladesh Chatra League, which is the student wing of Bangladesh Awami League, who killed a boy in the city’s Badda area on Monday for alleged stealing of a mobile phone, also has been killed. Reports he was killed within 12 hours in a gunfight in the night. Many were happy in view of the reckless killing by ruling party men with impunity but it saw another extra-judicial killing defeating the rule of law.
Similarly, a Jubo League leader was killed on Monday in the so-called gunfight with law enforcers who was accused of shooting a women and her unborn baby in the womb in Magura last month. In fact, he was shooting indiscriminately in an intra-party factional clash and his bullets killed an elderly man on the occasion.
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim talking on killing of party workers said they are intruders in the party and it is time to clean the party from criminals.
Three Awami League leaders were also killed in intra-party clash in the city’s Badda area last week in their fight who will control the locality. Tool collection was the main reason behind the fight. Headline in a national daily yesterday said a total of 35 ruling party leaders at different level were killed in the last seven months in intra-party fighting.
Killing of three other teenagers has meanwhile shocked the nation. A 13 years boy was tortured to death in Sylhet last month and the main accused was able to leave the country bribing the local police. The matter would remain in the dark if the killer was not apprehended by expatriate Bangladeshi nationals in Saudi Arabia.
News report said the killers had struck a deal of Tk 12 lakhs to bury the case but social media made the killing public and foiled the conspiracy to destroy the case. Another boy was killed in Khulna and yet another in Barguna for stifling matter but the cruelties were harrowing.
Meanwhile, the rape story of two teenage girls who were later poisoned to death at Madaripur last week was terrible. And what is moreover unbelievable is that police battoned the school students and dispersed them when they threw a human chain to protest the killing of their fellow students by unruly elements.
Another story said a Chatra League student was killed last week at Islami University in Kushtia and he was fired by a police sub-inspector and a former BCL activist who was earlier sacked from the service for taking part in many crimes.
