re: #131 Dark_Falcon

It’s making government officials in India freak out for PR reasons. They don’t want to look like they are “capitulating to foreigners”. The two main parties of India are getting ready from an election next year, so just like the Democrats and Republicans here, the BJP and Congress parties are playing the “More Patriotic Than Thou Game”.

Also reflects that fact that in India the middle and upper classes get gentler treatment from the police.

Her case quickly became a major story in India, with politicians urging diplomatic retaliation and TV news channels showing the woman in a series of smiling family photos.

That reaction may look outsized in the United States, but the case touches on a string of issues that strike deeply in India, where the fear of public humiliation resonates strongly and heavy-handed treatment by the police is normally reserved for the poor. For an educated, middle-class woman to face public arrest and a strip search is almost unimaginable, except in the most brutal crimes.

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