Mumbai is not only India's financial capital but a hub
for pickpocketers too. With surging crowds all over,
picking pockets has become not only an organised crime
but is emerging as an industry of sorts.
Lawyers, as any other citizen, can be victims of this
flourishing crime but it is an irony that they are
vulnerable even in the temples of justice.
Some of Mumbai courts being so overcrowded and with
lawyers having to clutch files and books, they stand
a very good chance of having their pockets picked.
Having emptied my wallet in fighting for social causes
over three decades there is nothing that a
pickpocketer could get out of me. However, with
pickpockets today also targeting mobile phones my cell
phone is a concern and I keep it safe, close to my
heart inspite of the common theory that its radiation
could be harmful. I would rather not be heart broken
at having my mobile picked.
One has to look at the malaise of pickpocketing
without a jaundiced eye. Our politicians by their acts
and deeds are role models. When our Ministers and MLAs
pocket lakhs if not crores in broad daylight and our
MPs even unable to resist swallowing a slice of the
MPLAD scheme scam, is it not unfair that only common
man who pockets a comparatively microscopic
denomination faces
the rigors of law while the pick pocketing politicians
are a law to themselves.
Aires Rodrigues
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