The underworld's rules

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When a murder or hit, as it is sometimes called, is planned the planners or those who order the act also agree on the amount of money to be paid to the killer or killers. The amount fixed depends on the social position of the victim-to-be, that is, the killer's expense goes up with the status of the target. These killers, they say, are fewer in number because most of those killed belong to the middle echelon of society. For these they hire new, rising assassins.
The underworld's rule, is they advance half the money before the hit and the rest after the deed is done. If the killer loses his life his family then receives the money. The killer then shadows the target for 15 days to a month, learns the routine and habits of the target and then one day he strikes. This is more or less the scenario we are told.
So what are the reasons for ordering these killings? In most cases they are land related conflicts, refusal to pay extortion money, being an obstacle to something, conflict arising when one or the other wants to establish superiority in the area, conflict in business, women-related conflict, etc. Sometimes rejection in love is also a reason.
All these details and more were recently published in a daily. All of that and probably much, much more are probably known by the law enforcing agencies. There are of course many other important details that law enforcers don't know, like the location where they are likely to find those killers, otherwise surely they would have nabbed them unless those people enjoy some kind of immunity, in which case they would be out of reach.
This is the reality of life we have to live with.

Raushan Ara
Malibagh
Dhaka