IN A country like ours, where forest department officers are sacked when a leopard is brutally killed in some place in Madhya Pradesh or where a Salman Khan is taken to task, for the so-called killing of an endangered species, namely the black buck, where does the most intelligent animal of them all, viz, man, stand? A day before the country flaunted its military prowess in its 60th Republic Day celebrations, a group of hooligans went on a rampage, brutally assaulting girls in a pub in Mangalore. Why? Were those girls doing anything, which was against the law? How can a group of people draw the courage to commit such an act? Has the fear of law subsided to such an extent in the minds of the law-breakers?

With more and more of such groups emanating all over the country, isn’t this a threat to the security, peace and stability of the country? How can the government hesitate to ban such self-proclaimed groups of moral police? Or is the government actually encouraging the growth of such groups for making political capital?

Although the entire country witnessed this ghastly incident, little has been done to bring these inhuman people to book. Isn’t this an act equivalent to terror? Or only if a Taj and Oberoi hotel is captured by terrorists from a neighbouring country, should we go up in arms against terrorism? It’s high time, the so-called leaders of this nation took a call on such incidents and provided the very basic right to its citizens, namely, "the right to live freely in their own country."