Seven Years Jail for 9-Year-Old Girl

(Ranchi, India) In 1998, nine-year-old Rupa Kumari (aka Aneeta) was caught riding a train without a ticket and a magistrate jailed her when she couldn't pay the fine. Rupa was supposed to be in jail for nine days but, due to bureaucratic bungling, she ended up spending seven years behind bars. Fortunately, a visiting high court justice heard her story and she was released.

This story seems to stretch the limits of believability but, in a country of a billion people, it's imaginable.