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Outraged at Mallya, woman prefers jail to paying fine for traveling without a ticket
A 44-year-old woman from an affluent family, caught for travelling without a ticket on a local train on Sunday, chose to go to jail for a week instead of paying a Rs 260 fine.
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Why?
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The outraged woman said the authorities should first arrest and recover the Rs 9,000-plus crores that liquor baron Vijay Mallya owes the country's banks.
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The woman, a mother of two who lives in a high-rise building in the plush Bhuleshwar neighbourhood in south Mumbai, was caught by a ticket checker on Sunday at Mahalaxmi station.
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When they told her to cough up the fine, she said they should first arrest Mallya, the Railway Police here said.
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"She was produced in the magistrate's court today (Tuesday) and asked to pay the fine. But she declined and chose to go to jail for seven days," said a security officer at the Mumbai division of Western Railway.
A Railway Protection Force officer said that police tried very hard to persuade the woman to pay the fine and call it a day.
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She remained adamant and refused to pay.
"...she spent nearly 12 hours arguing with railway officials, demanding to know why the authorities were going soft on Mallya and harassing the common man," a police officer said.
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Fed up, the police summoned the woman's husband. He, too, failed to convince his wife.
She insisted on serving the seven-day jail term.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ing-without-a-ticket/articleshow/51524893.cms
A 44-year-old woman from an affluent family, caught for travelling without a ticket on a local train on Sunday, chose to go to jail for a week instead of paying a Rs 260 fine.
.
.
Why?
.
.
The outraged woman said the authorities should first arrest and recover the Rs 9,000-plus crores that liquor baron Vijay Mallya owes the country's banks.
.
The woman, a mother of two who lives in a high-rise building in the plush Bhuleshwar neighbourhood in south Mumbai, was caught by a ticket checker on Sunday at Mahalaxmi station.
.
When they told her to cough up the fine, she said they should first arrest Mallya, the Railway Police here said.
.
"She was produced in the magistrate's court today (Tuesday) and asked to pay the fine. But she declined and chose to go to jail for seven days," said a security officer at the Mumbai division of Western Railway.
A Railway Protection Force officer said that police tried very hard to persuade the woman to pay the fine and call it a day.
.
.
She remained adamant and refused to pay.
"...she spent nearly 12 hours arguing with railway officials, demanding to know why the authorities were going soft on Mallya and harassing the common man," a police officer said.
.
Fed up, the police summoned the woman's husband. He, too, failed to convince his wife.
She insisted on serving the seven-day jail term.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ing-without-a-ticket/articleshow/51524893.cms
VijKris,
I read the article.... First I judged her as foolish. Spent 12 hours detained at railway station, and now sentenced to a week's jail. But reflecting on it, I applaud her courage of conviction. She is rare, 1 in 100 million people.... The politician of the country are looting the people.... even now. Corruption and crony capitalism is still there - though we see only the small tip of it, like an ice-berg. I wonder what will really happen if all the people dissent and hold the politicians to account. And make every penny of tax payer's money count.... Only one city of Mumbai collects taxes, cess and fees of over Rs. 30,000 crores. Directly and indirectly, we pay lakhs of crores of rupees to the govt. Even those who do not pay any income taxes contribute. So I hope over time, the general public awakens and makes our politicians account in a honest and a transparent manner of all the funds collected. Were it to happen, we will not have cases of like Chaggan Bhujbal, a vegetable vendor turned politician who has reported assets or Rs. 23,000 crores. If this is just what one minor politician can do, imagine, what must be happening overall....
I read the article.... First I judged her as foolish. Spent 12 hours detained at railway station, and now sentenced to a week's jail. But reflecting on it, I applaud her courage of conviction. She is rare, 1 in 100 million people.... The politician of the country are looting the people.... even now. Corruption and crony capitalism is still there - though we see only the small tip of it, like an ice-berg. I wonder what will really happen if all the people dissent and hold the politicians to account. And make every penny of tax payer's money count.... Only one city of Mumbai collects taxes, cess and fees of over Rs. 30,000 crores. Directly and indirectly, we pay lakhs of crores of rupees to the govt. Even those who do not pay any income taxes contribute. So I hope over time, the general public awakens and makes our politicians account in a honest and a transparent manner of all the funds collected. Were it to happen, we will not have cases of like Chaggan Bhujbal, a vegetable vendor turned politician who has reported assets or Rs. 23,000 crores. If this is just what one minor politician can do, imagine, what must be happening overall....
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