Kalu (rajasthan), July 20 -- "Saaheb [sir], we confess that we were drunk and drove our tempo into the road divider, but we stole no iron pipes," pleaded Birbal Ram, a young man with a weathered face. The day was July 4, the temperature was 44 degrees Celsius, and Birbal and his co-accused, Gopal, had just turned down hot tea served to them in paper cups....