Mugging on the rise

A mugging story on a busy road of the Dhaka city is basically a glaring evidence of poor law and order situation in our country, especially in Dhaka.
At 8:00am 24.11.09, I with my friend Mamun and two of his colleagues went to Rifles Square at Philkhana Gate for shopping. With a plan in mind to go inside Rifles Square, we were having tea near Philkhana gate. At that time one of my friend's colleagues said that he had to meet with a client of his company on the other side of the road in front of the Ibne Sina Hospital. My friend and two of his colleagues went to meet that client. They kept me waiting in front of the tea-stall. They were supposed to come back within five minutes. After waiting for fifteen minutes, I entered a fashion house nearby still waiting for them to come back. After five minutes when I came back, I saw that my friend was sitting on a rickshaw and was waiting for me. When I came nearer to him I noticed there was something wrong. His face was gloomy. There was blood in his lips. One of his legs was severely injured which was probably deliberately done by muggers so that he would not be able to follow them. When he and his colleagues crossed the road, a man running from the opposite direction sprayed something like smoke in his eyes and other man hit him from the behind with something hard and he fell down on the road. A total 7-8 persons began to beat him and started to snatch all his possessions. They snatched his mobile, moneybag etc. They did the whole thing at such speed that he could not see anyone's face. The muggers took less than one minute to accomplish the whole task and ran away from the scene.
Afterwards, we tried to call my friend's colleagues over mobile but those were switched off. Later, we came to know that they were also snatched and beaten up severely at the same time the same way.
I think it is the high time for the government to address these kinds of public grievances.