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Crimes creeping in

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Law and order across the country has started deteriorating as criminals are coming out of their hideouts after withdrawal of joint forces .
Crime incidents like murder, mugging, robbery and extortion have increased in the city and elsewhere in the country.
The law and order had marked an improvement after the joint forces began the anti-crime drive -Operation Clean Heart -- across the country on October 17 last year.
A good number of listed criminals were arrested during the drive while the rest went into hiding. But the scenario began to change and criminals started coming out of their hideouts after the army pullout on January 9. They are now moving freely, reports from many areas say.
In the most sensational incident, eight people were killed in two bomb explosions at a fair in a remote
village in Shakhipur in Tangail district on Friday night.
In the city, muggers stabbed to death insurance company employee Abdus Salam Faruq on the Mazar Road in Mirpur on Sunday and looted valuables.
In another incident in the city, armed assailants gunned down Nurul Islam, a leader of opposition Awami League's student front Jubo League, at Pallabi. He was shot dead for his alleged involvement with the joint forces during an anticrime drive on January 17, police and his family believe.
Local people said Islam's death was a "revenge killing" and there may be more such killings by the criminals who have now come out of their hideouts.
Robbers looted gold ornaments worth about Tk 1.03 crore from a jewellery at Gulshan on the same night. In Narayanganj in the same night, criminals snatched away their
accomplice Anwar from police at Fatullah.
Dacoits looted cash and valuables from 14 shops and offices at Topkhana Road in the city on the night of January 15.
In northern Panchagarh district schoolgirl Parbati Das was raped and killed by miscreants at Kalikapur Christianpara at Atoari on Friday morning.
Sources claimed that cadres of the ruling party are now taking control of most of the drug businesses and smuggling spots in the city.
Transport owners now fear that extortionists and hoodlums would now resume their activities at different bus terminals in the city. They had gone into hiding closing their 'union offices' but are now moving
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freely and demanding toll.
One incident worried some high-ups in the police department. Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activist AKM Raquib Hasan, an accused in several criminal cases, was beaten to death by police at Barasat under Terokheda thana in Khulna.
According to police records, cases of crime like murder, rape, abduction, mugging, robbery and extortion increased to 1,27, 616 last year from previous year's 1,14,191.
The government has however taken steps to curb crimes. The Rapid Action Team (RAT) of police will be on duty from next week. The government is also planning to set up a 'special force' of police, counter intelligence in police and community policing.