After being stripped, shaved bald and then made to parade naked with a garland of chappals, the two boys, aged eight and nine years old, are still paying an extreme price for their petty crime — stealing a one-rupee chakli. The barbaric punishment meted out to them by the shopkeeper has left them so humiliated and shaken, that they can no longer bear to live at home in Ulhasnagar, where the entire neighbourhood witnessed their shame.