Police's dubious role

Recently a teenage boy (Fareez Rahman, sixteen-year-old and nephew of a former AL MP) injured four people while driving a SUV recklessly in the capital's Gulshan on October 12. The boy is guilty on three counts: he did not have a driving license, he was driving the car in a drunken state and he left four people injured.

One of these offences was enough to arrest him on the spot but the police did not do so. A police officer who visited the scene immediately after the accident gave The Daily Star all the details, but the officer in charge (OC) of Gulshan Police Station denied it later.

We detest this attitude of the police; they are trying to shield the offender who deserves punishment.
Nur Jahan
Chittagong