It is shocking that our youths are being implicated in various criminal activities in capital Dhaka and elsewhere across the country under the patronage of local ruling party leaders. A media report in a national daily on Saturday said that many of these teenagers have already involved in all kinds of unlawful actions — from petty crimes to murder, stalking to rape, and mugging to drug abuse.
According to the report, as the latest incident an English medium school student Anushka of city’s Kalabagar area was raped and killed by her friend Fardin Iftaker Dihan recently. Earlier, Anushka went to Dihan’s house at Dolphin lane and at one stage she reportedly fell sick. She was taken to a hospital where doctors declared her dead. Later, police arrested Dihan and he is now in jail.
In another incident on January 28, a female Ulab University student along with her two friends – Arafat and Raihan — went to Bamboo Restaurant at Uttara in the city. Neha and another friend were already waiting there from earlier. They altogether took wine at the restaurant. Because of excessive drinking, that girl and her friend Arafat fell sick and died the next day.
Meanwhile, social scientists and criminologists have apprehended that it would be difficult to bring the misguided gangsters to normal life as they are already involved in gang culture to dominate others and to get connected to power with the patronage of political leaders. As those leaders, who do power politics, abuse the adolescent gangs to dominate their areas by creating terror.
Meanwhile, Hatirjheel thana police arrested 343 teenagers in eight days. Of them, 269 have been handed over to their families. According to intelligence agency sources, 34 teenager gangs are now active in the capital while a RAB report said about 50 gangs are active. However, reliable sources said about 100 gangs are involved in various criminal activities in city’s Mohammadpur, Dhanmondi, Mirpur and Uttara areas.
What is unfortunate is that unemployed young ones has no jobs so they get involved crimes and drug carriers. Thousands of unemployed youth are happily sent under police cases without any kind thought that they do so just to remain alive. But the drug business is growing exponentially as big business of the powerful cartel the members of which are safe. The courts also cannot help the young victims showing the law
We must all think the way our young ones are neglected and abused. We cannot all be inhuman and fail to see the larger criminal world.
