Sir: This refers to the recent video clip aired on the electronic media, showing an assistant commissioner slapping a matriculation candidate who had been booked for cheating and threatening the bureaucrat during examinations. As a society, I think it is time we took notice of such acts. The fearlessness displayed by today’s generation is the result of improper and unethical knowledge being delivered to them. It was amazing to note that during these examinations, hundreds of examination centres were declared ‘sensitive’. In a country where an educational activity can be a crisis, there must be something wrong with the system. A generation that is being nurtured on shortcuts can never be able to surface globally. As for the behaviour of the assistant commissioner, I wonder if he would slap the examination hall’s invigilator and several BISE officials or the candidate’s parents as it was their duty in the first place to keep an eye on their child’s activities. On the other hand, I wonder if any administrative cadre official has jurisdiction over such an academic event. Dr Zaheer Gujranwala