“The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.”
Katherine Boo
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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