You are going to read a text. Some sentences are missing from the text. Choose from the list (A-C) the most appropriate sentences to complete the text. There is also an extra sentence that you do not need to use.

A journalist was attacked in Ghaziabad in a bone-chilling ambush on Monday night. Vikram Joshi was returning home on a scooter with his two daughters, when a group of men shot him in the head. 1) ________. But no FIR was filed. While the police have now made arrests, Joshi’s family argues that the situation would not have escalated in this grim way had the police acted on their complaints in the first place. 2) ___________

A. Joshi had complained to the police earlier, when some of the same assailants sexually harassed his niece and beat up her brother.

B. What the attack on Joshi underlines instead is how emboldened criminals are in parts of Uttar Pradesh. 

C. The more fearless they are, the more fearful citizens become.