India, April 5 -- At the entrance of Star of Mysore office hangs a framed quote by Leo Tolstoy: "If you feel pain, you are alive. If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being."

When I walked into the office yesterday and saw the news report about a man named Suresh, a haunting question followed me in: Are our public servants human beings?

The answer, tragically, is no -most are not.

Suresh's story is not just heartbreaking - it is terrifying. It should send a chill down the spine of every honest, law-abiding citizen in Mysuru and Kodagu.

Suresh walked into a Police Station - a place meant to provide protection and justice - to file a missing person complaint about his wife, the mother of his two young children.

But instead ...