You know you’re back in Mumbai when you open a newspaper and you read about the police harassing customers at a restaurant for some minor or imaginary transgression of some arcane law. Police apparently barged into some lounge bar for not closing on time and then booked some of the guests there for behaving indecently with the police. Indecent behaviour is incidentally not taking off all your clothes in public and dancing around lamp posts or propositioning innocent passers-by with lewd gestures. It is not standing in a line when told to do so by the police. It does not matter to the Mumbai police that the customers at a restaurant had not actually broken any laws. If the police wishes, the police does.

Archaic laws: Youngster take out a peace rally recently against harassment meted out to patrons by the police while frequenting bars and pubs in the cityu00a0