Why are politicians scared of taking General VK Singh to court?

I’d driven up to the temple town of Katra in 1998 with a senior Jammu and Kashmir politician, who despite his occasional clowning, is no-one’s fool. He stared out of the window of the bullet-proof vehicle, watching the packs of monkeys lined up along the road, waiting for tourists to fling fruit or biscuits to them. “You Indians have turned even the bloody monkeys into beggars,” he said. Then, he was silent. So was I: there wasn’t a lot to say, really.

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