Bomb blast cases

Police officials have cited certain reasons for lack of progress in the investigation, such as, frequent transfer of investigation officers, delay in giving reports about forensic evidence, lack of required equipment to examine bomb blasts etc. But the most shocking reasons they mentioned would shed ample light on the principle cause of the delay. It's the political influence. Whenever the investigation officers tried to get to the bottom of these incidents, political influence peddling, both in the past and the present, put spanner on the wheel. It prevented them doing their job in a professional manner. That probably explains why none of the bomb blast cases have so far been solved. Not just the failure to submit charge sheets, in almost all the cases, the real culprits have not been tracked down. The authorities have a lot of explaining to do, if they want to put our minds in rest. It is undoubtedly worrying to learn about the sad state of these cases. The authorities must ensure transparency in these cases, and make sure that politics does not comes in the way of investigation.

We have been watching with anxiety the recent discoveries of huge caches of arms and other explosives from around the country. As the police officials say, the materials used in the bombs are highly sophisticated. Discovering such huge caches will be meaningless unless the routes of trafficking these illegal materials are identified and sealed. At the same time, a culture of impunity has been creeping in since the real culprits are not being punished. We must not allow that to happen any longer.

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