I am surprised that people in US seem to be shocked.In India, we have the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,M.Karunanidhi,in his earlier tenure, had made the father of a student of a University, who was killed in police shooting when he joined the protest against the University conferring Honorary Doctorate on Karunanidhi(who is totally ineligible) to declare that the slain student was not his son;recently his son’s followers attacked a news paper office for having carried an unfavorable report about his another son(incidentally the paper is being run by his nephew)and killed a worker;the case was dropped subsequent to his patching up with his nephew.
Have a heart.
What you are not witnessing in US is peanuts.
Story:
Gov. David A. Paterson personally directed two state employees to contact the woman who had accused his close aide of assaulting her, according to two people with direct knowledge of the governor’s actions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/nyregion/02paterson.html