DIBRUGARH, Jan 18 - Advocate Ruksana Khan had locked her car and went to the Judicial Courts Complex here this afternoon, as usual. Half an hour later, she found her car with broken window panes and a bag containing cash and documents stolen. She has reported the matter to the police, who are clueless.
In several other localities here, a group of youths have gone on a rampage of sorts. Armed with sharp metal objects, they walk around parked vehicles, vigorously scratch the cars, damaging the paint as well as denting the car bodies. This has been happening in busy market areas as well as isolated spots like near the Don Bosco Higher Secondary School.
Citizens have suggested that the police would do well to install CCTV cameras at all vulnerable public areas, so that a visual recording is available to trace and detect the miscreants.
Locals have also demanded the police to be more vigilant in the city as well as elsewhere in the district, to curb crime and nab criminals.
As of now, there is widespread resentment that the police in Dibrugarh remain mostly inactive.