Glaring Contrast!

It’s really heartening that Maoists released abducted OC Atindranath Dutta and he’s
back home. Many, particularly his family members heaved a sigh of relief.W.B Govt too
feel relieved, though it had to bow down to Maoists’ demand to release 24 tribals on bail. Following lifting of OC by Maoists, the atmosphere was so surcharged with emotion, particularly for electronic media vying with each other to beam time and again the hapless members of OC’s family with anxieties writ large on their tearful faces, that govt had perhaps no option but to get OC released at any cost. The abduction episode ended with a happy note.
However, in glaring contrast, two other cops Kanchan Garai and Sabir Ali of West Bengal Police, kidnapped three months back are not as lucky as Sankrail OC . No body knows where they are or if they are alive at all. Perhaps administration is not that eager to trace them. When they were lifted media made no hue and cry as they have done in OC’s instance. Thanks to Datta’s abduction, their names have surfaced again. Perhaps, with the passage of time they would be again effaced from public memory and only their nearest ones would keep waiting, perhaps in vain, for their return. Unfortunate!