By Dr. K. Javed Nayeem, MD
Some time ago, I had an occasion to write an article about how a petty thief who had stolen a pair of buffaloes and a calf in Karnataka, was nabbed far away in Maharashtra, a full fifty-seven years after he had committed the crime. The man, who had indulged in the theft in the year 1965, when he was just a twenty-year-old, daily wage-earning lad, was a full seventy-seven years old, when he was apprehended in 2023, for a crime, which he himself perhaps had forgotten and even atoned for.
