Rid Pharma accused ones evading arrest

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According a news report police took more than eight months to submit before the Drug Court a report that three Rid Pharmaceuticals officials charged with manufacturing adulterated paracetamol syrup, that caused the death of 28 children across the country last year, are now absconding. Surprisingly, Brahmanbaria police ignored court warning nine times before placing the report on execution of arrest warrants against the alleged officials of Rid Pharmaceuticals.
The judge of the Drug Court, according to the news report, first rejected the bail prayer of Mizanur Rahman, the Managing Director of Rid Pharma on March 22 on the ground that adulterated syrup caused death and amazingly a few weeks later the same judge granted bail to Mizanur Rahman on April 18 on the ground that he had been in custody for a long time and the Drug Directorate was yet to submit the report on the kids' deaths.
If such is the scenario in our country of legal actions against the alleged baby murderers two years after the gruesome incident that was so widely covered by the media and created so much public shock, one can imagine what is happening with other murder cases that have never caught the eyes of the press.
The muscle and money strengths have become the only instruments for our safety and survival. The moral as well as legal laxity in every sphere of our society seems to have been so widespread that people's security has fallen to an all-time low level with law enforcement agencies playing a cruel cat and mouse game with innocent people.
Whenever people express their grievances and seek a redress from the government, the politicians in power always throw the blame on the politicians of the past governments as an answer to people's grievances. Today people are confused about what they should do for their security. Wherever people approach and whenever they face a crisis there is only one direction they are shown: spend money to grease the palms of the public servants.
MA Khan
Dhaka