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Police Blast Unlawful Arrest of 73 Thieves

Police Blast Unlawful Arrest of 73 Thieves

A senior police source has told Sierra Express Media that the arrest and unlawful detention of 73 persons alleged to be thieves is criminal thus also portrays a serious abuse of their human rights.

This source said the police were wrong to have branded the individuals criminal because only a court of law is the sole entity that has the authority to establish judgment of them being guilty or not.

The police source further intimated that the pretext under which mass arrests of such a quantum is done based on suspicion should have to be either in a situation of emergency or on the occurrence of a chaotic situation.

The source however question the relevance of evidence adduced by which they judge guilty the accused persons without being tried in a court of law.

Chains of arguments on the order hands imply that the entire noise about 73 thieves being capture is a ploy by some unscrupulous individual to build a political capital out of the issue.

Some highly placed sources have told Sierra Express that certain individuals have arranged the set-up to device a means of sourcing funds to staircase non-violence crusade under the carpet of politics.

However, the two sources argued the possibility for the police to be opportune in capturing 73 thieves in different locations at the same night without being engrossed in breath-taking battle.

Moreover, the police source stated that the publicity behind the issue is framed to insight wild thoughts that if 73 thieves would be in action on frequent occasions, it means the peaceful citizens life are at stake, seeming to suggest that state security is under risk and risks potentials, when the issue is just an isolated incident.

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