{"id":4670,"date":"2008-07-14T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2008-07-14T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T18:11:00","slug":"the-matunga-racket-has-been-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-matunga-racket-has-been-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"The Matunga Racket Has Been Busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"\/the-matunga-racket\/\" title=\"The Matunga Racket -- Amit Varma\">the Matunga Racket<\/a>? More than a year after I wrote that story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumbaimirror.com\/net\/mmpaper.aspx?Page=article&amp;sectid=2&amp;contentid=2008071220080712020408608d586c190\" title=\"Cop held in gay extortion case \">it&#8217;s been busted<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted, of course, but the central problem here is the system, not an individual or two. They arrested one cop&#8212;but the incentives, the accountability, the perverse laws, they all remain the same. Illustrations of this from my earlier posts: <a href=\"\/the-law-as-a-revenue-stream\/\" title=\"The law as a revenue stream\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"\/social-service-or-self-service\/\" title=\"Social Service or Self Service?\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"\/a-template-for-police-corruption\/\" title=\"A Template For Police Corruption\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"\/play-that-mms-again-please\/\" title=\"Play That MMS Again, Please\">4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from Doc.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/the-matunga-racket\/\" title=\"The Matunga Racket -- Amit Varma\">the Matunga Racket<\/a>? More than a year after I wrote that story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumbaimirror.com\/net\/mmpaper.aspx?Page=article&amp;sectid=2&amp;contentid=2008071220080712020408608d586c190\" title=\"Cop held in gay extortion case \">it&#8217;s been busted<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted, of course, but the central problem here is the system, not an individual or two. They arrested one cop&#8212;but the incentives, the accountability, the perverse laws, they all remain the same. Illustrations of this from my earlier posts: <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/the-law-as-a-revenue-stream\/\" title=\"The law as a revenue stream\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/social-service-or-self-service\/\" title=\"Social Service or Self Service?\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/a-template-for-police-corruption\/\" title=\"A Template For Police Corruption\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/play-that-mms-again-please\/\" title=\"Play That MMS Again, Please\">4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from Doc.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Matunga Racket Has Been Busted - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-matunga-racket-has-been-busted\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Matunga Racket Has Been Busted - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Remember the Matunga Racket? 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