Nothing illustrates this better than the continued cold shrugs it gives Sudip Tamankar, a bus driver, an activist and an aspiring politician who has filed over 80 criminal complaints with the police. Barring one, none have been registered as First Information Reports.

The activist’s complaint against illegal mining, which names two former Congress chief ministers was registered as an FIR by the Goa police more than a year after he had written to them.