Phasse Pardis

This is the name of the community which is supposed to be responsible for the spate of robberies in and around Bombay. They are an old tribe and use primitive methods such as stones, ropes etc. They smear their bodies with oil so as to slip away from a gripping hand. They are also reported to flee by jumping into nalas, gutters and rivers. Also reported is that most of their names are like Kale and Shinde. Some kind of left-out-son-of-the-soil mutiny ? Also which comunity do they target ? Time for everyone to be careful. (Most of our local poilce force cadres also sport similar names - so do we see some kind of linkage ?). As another point of interest - our police has been largely unsucessful in nabbing them (But then that is also nothing new. It cant be expected too - given the surnames similarities).