TIOL-DDT 1401 · Wednesday, 14 July 2010 · story 4 of 4

Bribe-proof garments - Pocketless trousers to prevent Corruption

TALKING of Nepal, the C ommission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) of Nepal has come up with a novel idea to stop corruption in Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport. Now all airport officials will be given bribe-proof garment - trousers with no pockets. But pockets are not the only places where corruption can be hidden. It was held that a Keralite keeping gold in his underwear was not actually concealing gold, because as his lungi had no pockets, that was the only place where he could keep the gold safely.