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"Recent Announcement: Marriage Certificate is Not A Proof That You Are Married. It's just a Document To Show That You Had Attended Your Marriage Ceremony," mocked journalist Rajdeep Sardesai. Memes like these have flooded social media in India after, "A passport is primarily a travel document and should not be treated as proof of citizenship, a senior external affairs ministry official said." TOI. Does that mean that there are citizens of other countries traveling with Indian passports? If so, how many? "R Rajagopal, who worked at The Telegraph newspaper, says his passport renewal was held up after his name was removed from the electoral roll in West Bengal during a controversial voter list revision. Known as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the exercise is being carried out by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to identify ineligible voters." BBC. Renewal of a passport requires the old passport, proof of address, which include utility bills, driving license or rent agreement, and two recent photographs. Bajaj Finance. It does not need a voter card which is now being issued by the ECI after an SIR. As per the ECI an elector (a voter) is one who is a "Citizen of India. At least 18 years of age. Ordinarily Resident of the Constituency. Not disqualified under any law." eci.gov.in. if a passport does not certify citizenship, why is Mr Rajagopal being denied one because the ECI refuses to recognize him as a citizen. Even though he undoubtedly is. So what is the recourse? Obviously a court of law. But this is where one could disappear. "Even as Supreme Court has repeatedly invoked the legal maxim 'that justice delayed is justice denied' - with CJI Surya Kant recently saying 'justice delayed is justice destroyed'," "SC took almost 14 years to decide the appeal. During the period, two out of three convicts died." "The appeal came up for hearing on 12 dates over the last 14 years." TOI. On 23 June, the Orissa High Court delivered a verdict in favor of two daily-wage sweepers after 27 years of litigation. TOI. "Indian entrepreneur Prakash Dadlani has backed has backed Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu's argument that corruption is pushing up costs across the economy the economy, saying it is quietly making Indian manufacturing more expensive by raising the cost of land, approvals, interest and rents." He said, "corruption is not only making homes unaffordable but is also weakening India's ability to compete with manufacturing hubs such as China and Vietnam." BT. If you can prolong a case till death, there is little fear of punishment. So, "A total of 17,043 encounter operations were carried out across Uttar Pradesh in the past nine years, in which 289 criminals were killed and 34,253 were arrested. A total of 11,834 accused were injured." NDTV. "Encounter killings, often simply referred to as encounters, is a euphemism used in India and Pakistan to refer to extrajudicial killings by security forces." wikipedia. "In 'encounter' deaths, the logic of Uttar Pradesh Police is always the same. The accused attacks the police while being taken for interrogation. In an act of defence, the police retaliate, in which the accused dies." 101reporters.com. Apparently, UP Police have changed tactics and now shoot the legs. "According to Uttar Pradesh Police data, there have been 13,000 such incidents in the last seven years, in which the accused were shot in the knee. This is called 'half fry' in UP Police parlance." Hindus are cremated after death, so 289 dead were fully fried and the 13,000 crippled for life just half fried. How droll.