Outrage at a temple

INTIMIDATION of minority communities assumed a new dimension with Tuesday's attack on a Kaliakoir temple in Gazipur where miscreants left a note warning Hindus of further assaults on them, if they did not stop worshipping idols. The note also had the temerity to ask the Hindus to convert to Islam or migrate to India.
How dare the criminals behind this dastardly incident have thrown an open challenge before the law-enforcing agencies? From the brazenness of the act as well as the language of the note left by the criminals, it appears there is no law in the country.
But one may not be surprised at the haughtiness of the perpetrators of the outrage.
For, on the very next day of the Gazipur incident, the High Court itself expressed concern and dismay over the police report on similar attacks on religious minorities that had taken place recently and ordered the police chief to engage CID or other branch of the law-enforcement agency to track down and arrest the culprits.
Earlier, through another directive on January 15, the HC had ordered the government to take measures to protect Hindus.
The concern expressed by the HC followed by its specific directives speaks volumes for the fact that so far the law-enforcement department could do precious little to provide necessary protection to the lives and properties of Hindus, let alone their places of worship. Such lapses on the police's part only further emboldened the criminals to commit the Gazipur outrage.
The law-enforcement authorities should take the Gazipur incident as a wake-up call and take all-out measures to apprehend and punish the miscreants behind terrorisation of the minority community.