Incidence of crimes, including murder and mugging, has marked a rise in the Rajshahi city, causing concern among the city dwellers. At least five people, including two women, were killed by miscreants in the past 30 days, police and hospital sources said.
Besides, more than two dozens mugging and snatching incidents took place in different areas of the city, the sources added.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police sources said in July four people were killed in the city while about 13 incidents of snatching and mugging, especially battery-run auto-rickshaw snatching, took place.
Newspapers almost every day publish reports on mugging and snatching.
But the number of criminal activities will be much higher, as many crime incidents go unreported, rights activists have said.
Sohel Rana, auto-rickshaw owner residing in Shah Makhdhum College area in the city, said his vehicle was snatched in August but police were yet to recover it.
He said now he was apprehending that the other of his auto-rickshaws might also be snatched amid the deteriorating law and order.
Police on Monday night recovered the body of a woman from a student mess at Binodpur near Rajshahi University.
She might have been raped and then killed by his former husband, police said.
Police on August 24 recovered the naked body of a schoolgirl. She was killed after being raped by her nighbour.
On August 27 afternoon, ruling Awami League- backed lawyer Shahen Shah was killed by his rival over previous enmity at Rajpara thana.
On Wednesday night two snatchers, riding a motorcycle, attacked a housewife at Shibtola at Sagarpara in the city and snatched her purse, mobile and gold chain while she was returning home in a rickshaw.
Sunday evening the snatchers also snatched the purse of a housewife at Upashahar in the city.
Rajshahi Rakkha Sangram Parishad president Liakot Ali told New Age, `We are concerned about the deteriorating law and order. We have several times expressed our concern to the district law and order committee meeting but we did not get rid of the problem.’
When contacted, deputy commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Sarder Tamij Uddin told New Age, `We have been able to detect most of the incidents and legal action is being taken against those culprits.’
He claimed that overall law and order and crime situation was now under their control.
‘My personal view is that the situation is comparatively satisfactory. We are working amid many limitations and our forces are working very well,’ he added.
When contacted, ASP Sampa Yasmin of RAB-5 media wing told New Age that some criminal activities had increased after Eid but the situation was now under control.
-With New Age input
