A police officer in Delhi said this "first thing that happens when a suspected terorist is arrested, is a series of phone calls from the high and mighty to release the person immediately. Calls that cannot be ignored for one's own safety....reason why terrorism can never be tackled efffectively in India".
When the Forest Robin Hood of the Kerala-Karnataka forests mr. veerapan was at large no one could do anything. Ultimately he had to be "killed in an encounter" by Madam Jayalalitha's Police force