Almost identical crimes took place in Savar and Gazipur, just the persons involved were different. On Saturday, a university girl was gang raped in Savar. On Sunday, a schoolgirl was raped in Gazipur. Both of them had gone on dates with their boyfriends. Yet these ‘boyfriends’, along with their associates, gang raped the two girls and fled. The university student went to the police station and filed charges herself, but the schoolgirl was rescued by neighbours and admitted to hospital. On Monday also, another gang threatened to rape a woman in Suhrawardy Udyan, and took Tk 50 thousand and a credit card from her boyfriend.

The country had laws and law enforcement agencies. Yet one after the other killings rapes and gang rapes are taking place. What are the law enforcers doing? After the crime is committed, a few criminals are arrested and the law enforcement agencies’ duty is finished. If girls are raped when they go out with their false lovers or friends, then it will be difficult for them to go out at all. It should be seen if those who want to restrict women to the four walls or their homes, are behind these incidents.

Only a handful of miscreants are involved in such crime. If the law enforcement agencies were active, they could punish them. But they do not perform their duties properly. Sometimes they are busy catching persons without any charges, and sometimes the actual culprits walk free. Crime cannot be controlled like this. The rule of law cannot be established in this manner.

Those who commit the heinous crimes of killing and rape, must be punished. Social resistance must be built up against them.