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To the Editor...
Combatting vices
Sir. Our society has been riddled with a large panoply of vices, namely, corruption, nepotism, bribery, terrorism, smuggling, trafficking and so on. However, we have been persistently making efforts to make our society a better habitat for the inhabitants. But we have not been successful enough to achieve the goal.
There Is a wide range of factors causing the recurrence of those vices. The most devastating among those being the absence of adequate Institutional mechanism to repel them.
Even, heinous crimes like murders very often go unpunished In the Dhaka University campus, one after another murder Is committed with impunity. Following any murder, the newspapers write sensitive reports, pious editorials: a commission gets formed to investigate the murder (which seldom submits its report) and. in the process' the mat ter sinks In obscurity. The criminals get encouraged to-commit further crimes desta-I blitzing the society. Had there | been adequate Institutions to I punish the first criminal, the I second crime would never
have been committed.
A man lakes a huge amount of loan from a financial institution. As per the law, he is to invest that money and within a certain period he is to pay it back with Interest. But alas, he docs not do sol He defaults, goes unpunished, other loanees follow suit; the country's financial sector gets crippled. Had there been adequate Institutions to punish the early defaulters and their 'accomplice officials', defaulting could not have gone unabated.
A crime Is committed by one and condoned by many others. There should be a complex set of Institutions to fight those at all tiers. Once it Is established that a crime would not go unpunished, the criminals would overnight change their colours into white, believably.
Spawning of committees, commissions, agencies, organizations and their subs with overlapping functional authorities may be required. But the society, polity, economy should be overwhelmed with a complex network of institutions, to combat all those vices.
Md Abdur Rouf
Sergeant Zahurul Haque Hall, nu
Time to Unite
Sir, I was eagerly waiting for your commentary/editorial following the attempt on Mr. Menon. The piece was exactly what was expected but there is a small point which 1 wish to mention here.
I don't think that any change in the top can bring about an improvement in the law and order situation. Even if any other party is given the control they , can do little in the atmosphere that has been created gradually over last decade and half by various factors. The prime necessity is to rehabilitate the process of Justice.
Concurring with your concluding comments I urge the major parties to sit down together and ensure judicial protection for all the citizens. Special protection for one or a few persons while providing Indemnities for some killing will only prolong the vicious atmosphere to the detriment of everybody.
MA Haq
Green Road. Dhaka