The thug’s transformation

The intervention of a sympathetic police officer helps a dreaded criminal reform
Sam D. Patel

In 1993, a notorious criminal, wanted for committing many crimes in Jogeshwari, a northern suburb of Bombay, was apprehended by the detection staff of the Jogeshwari Police Station. While being escorted to the police station he gave the policemen the slip. Jerking his arm to loosen the grip on him, he ran away, with the policemen in hot pursuit. The accused entered a tailor’s shop, pushed the tailor aside, took hold of a large pair of scissors and proceeded to injure himself on the head. The policemen arrived hard on his heels, caught hold of him, dislodged the scissors from his......



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