I was browsing some pages on the 'net and one advert for the India Times grabbed my attention; it was a collection of headlines, and one of them read, "Cops suspect gang of gays behind serial killing." (
Article here.)
The first thing I did was to check the date, and to my suprise it read 17th Jan 2007 and not "the year of our Lord, 1492." Here is the article, reproduced:
MUMBAI:
The police suspect that the South Mumbai serial killings are the handiwork of a
gang of frustrated
homosexuals.
However, they are still
to make any headway in the case.
"Last night we questioned
three homosexuals but did not find anything,"said ACP Prakash Aade.
Round-the-clock police patrolling has driven homosexuals and drug addicts away
from their haunts under the flyovers and dark corners.
Marine Drive, Chur-chgate
station, Oval ground among other places were said to be favourite spots for the
homosexuals. They look for partners at night and roam around with them.
On January 14 night, a Marine
Drive police station team was on patrol duty when it saw a 55-year-old man
sitting with two teenaged boys under a bridge near Chowpatty.
"The policemen questioned the
man if he was a homosexual, the latter confessed and was brought to the police
station. The accused, Ramesh Chaudhury, who cleans cars is unmarried and had
promised the 17-year-old boy to arrange a job for him. The victim had just come
from Basti, UP, to Mumbai.
Is India a fascist state? It would seem so. The police are arresting people solely because of their sexuality, and producing as evidence only the fact that the alleged killers are homosexual.
Would anyone from India like to comment?