Are Post Office investments still safe? Hundreds of self-employed workers at UK Post Offices were wrongly prosecuted or convicted between 1999 and 2015 for false accounting, theft and fraud, because of glitches in software systems that incorrectly showed money missing from accounts.

Smartly faulty hardware / software in govt services is widespread helping growth of many EVM democracies and its sponsoring unicorns, only a few such gets exposed abruptly. It may also encroach and surprise the post office and insurance लाभार्थी empire here and its private, pseudo-justice systems that are based on capital jugaad for the oppressors by sucking marginal rural savers and strategically engaging the confused opposing forces in Ram Ram japna, sabka maal apna!

Source: Reuters
Series: Global Digitability