Perjury - An English game

Sharad Pawar is lucky not to be English, not just because England keeps losing in cricket but because perjury cases lead more often to jail sentences there, writes Samanwaya Rautray and Tapas Ghosh in the Telegraph. Few people have ever been punished in India for the offence but Britain jailed Jeffrey Archer — peer, millionaire, best-selling author and like Pawar, a cricket-loving politician — for giving false evidence in court.