India's cops are thriving highway robbers who loot truckers of US$4.5 billion annually...

India's planned US$70 billion road infrastructure investment over the next three years, and the country's growing heavyweight global status, are being undermined from within - by highway check-point policemen looting bribes from truckers worth a remarkable US$4.5 billion annually. 

None of the world's other trillion-dollar economies (the United States, Britain, China, Japan, Germany, Russia, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain and Canada) faces this magnitude of police corruption. 

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government appears to be oblivious to a problem that is a national embarrassment, besides damaging the economy. India's efforts to secure a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council appears somewhat outlandish when traffic cops are busy countrywide as thriving highway robbers. More...

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