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India: Indian pensioner deals in marijuana to run orphanage
Ananova Thursday 17 Jan 2002 A 60-year-old woman in India is running an orphanage with cash she gets from dealing in marijuana. Bobby Das sells the drug along with betel nuts from a kiosk at Guwahati railway station. Sources in the city's police department say they're turning a blind eye to her activities because of where the money goes. "She's doing it for a humanitarian cause," a police official told Ananova. Her career began when a police officer asked if she would accept a newborn baby he found abandoned in an empty train carriage, the Indo Asian News Service reports. Her orphanage currently has eight children. "For me the little ones are like God and I have a heart big enough to accept kids left by their own parents, although I am poor," she says. "I know it's a crime to sell marijuana, but it's a lesser crime to sell intoxicants and earn money to feed infants than to leave children at the mercy of God in dustbins and railway coaches," she adds. She says she doesn't beg and doesn't allow the children to go hungry. "God is there to help me. Till today I have managed, but I shall never go to people with a begging bowl," she says.
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