Adieu Common Man
R K LAXMAN once had a brush with the Bombay Customs when they detained a book imported by him. About a year after the incident, he got a letter from the Assistant Collector that he had taken a lenient view and decided to let off Laxman.
Laxman wrote in Idle Hours that he was surprised that he did not even know that he was under Customs investigation.He wondered whether Customs sleuths were peeping into his bedroom to investigate his reading habits.
His point was that even without your knowing it, you could be an accused or an offender until let off by a benign Assistant Collector.