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Because you can’t throw cows at the police. Ok? (Link via separate emails from Salil and Deepak.)
28 August, 2008
Indian Customs…
... and traditions.
I feel immense schadenfreude whenever government officials are caught on the wrong side of the law, but I must point out that none of these men, or the women with them, should have been arrested. There was no coercion involved, no one’s rights seem to have been infringed, and the state had no business interfering.
The WTF line of the report is the one where the cops says that “no prior permission was taken for the party.” Prior permission for a party?
Also read: Laws Against Victimless Crimes Should Be Scrapped.
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