Beat And Flee

One wonders what has happened to the law and order situation in West Bengal. The beating up of a Higher Secondary examinee, Vivek Sharma by a 'youth leader', Sanjay Bakshi, is shocking. And as usual, the police is lying defunct. The city's law and order is the object of satire, the police being the target of ridicule. So long the state politics remains contaminated with anti-social elements, innocents are going to be assaulted, especially when the protectors of law are finding it too difficult to trace out a law-breaker with a political tag when the municipal elections are round the corner.