“I have committed every crime in the Indian Penal Code, except murder.”

—  Ramnath Goenka

In Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,

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