Lawlessness has disappointed us with law-enforcing agencies, irreparably perhaps. Lawlessness is damaging our social fabric with its two-fanged poisoning. Firstly, it offers carte blanche on the platter to the miscreants and criminals to strike with impunity where and when they wish. The second is not the poor performance of law-enforcing agencies. It is the vulnerable’s disappointment in those agencies to the extent that they are least interested in ever trying to stop and report anything criminal happening before their eyes.
The apathy and indifference of the witnesses or passersby is what the PTCL lineman shared with me, whom I frequently contacted for the faulty Internet supply to my subscribed PTCL number. This is a very interesting case.
In the past less than two months, the Internet supply to the area where I live was interrupted four times. The interruption can be considered a routine matter if the internet remains suspended for a day or two and if it is restored with the redressal of the complaints lodged by the subscribers. The interruption continues for more than three days. Damncaring the subscribers’ woes and anguish.
The main cable supplying the internet to the area is cut off and stolen by the criminals to be sold for its copper. The perpetrators, though recorded by CCTV cameras, appear to be the drug addicts. The lineman told me that the police refused to register an FIR against the addicts. Though the police caught some addicts, they freed them after reprimanding them verbally to avoid legal red tape.
