Bashirabi

How cops forced me to live as a beggar for a week

Bashirabi may not have been clad in her Sunday best when cops saw her at CST station on the morning of August 18, but the 55-year-old vegetable vendor from Nagpur wasn't dressed like a dog's dinner either. If her appearance wasn't up to the standards deemed suitable by the team of policemen that mistook her for a beggar and hauled her to court it ...