Insufferable

Understandably the saner elements in the cabinet had expressed their resentment at the way that this group has been allowed to act and questioned the legality of its actions.

Since the story of his murderous activity, ostensibly to cleanse the area of the Sarbahara emerged we have been calling for the arrest of the leader and the disbandment of the group. He has not only taken up the law in his own hands, he has also conducted public executions of alleged members of underground gang. He is reported to have drawn up a fresh hit-list, which includes former legislators, and UP chairmen.

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More proof of the horrendous activity of the JMJM led by the so-called 'Bangla Bhai' came to light the other day through the pictures of one of their victims, strung from a tree. Both the picture and the description of the activities of the murderous gang created revulsion in the readers' mind.

One is surprised by the statements of the police suggesting they couldn't arrest Bangla Bhai because that they didn't receive any orders for it. Why need orders to apprehend lawbreakers and criminals, unless of course what he has been doing was at some body else's bidding, who also happened to be in the echelons of the 'higher authority'? There couldn't have been any dearth of evidence against this man to put him behind bars.

The government couldn't afford an indifferent approach to the matter that involved sinister religio-political agenda without sending a self-deprecating signal across. At the risk of being repetitious, therefore, we again urge the government to arrest 'Bangla Bhai' and order his group disbanded.