Delhi’s startup and professional community today is living through two equally disturbing truths: founders Vaibhav Chawla who feel forced to shut down functioning businesses once the criminal process is turned against them, and ordinary citizens who watch their life’s savings flow to sophisticated fraudsters while the police machinery moves at a glacial pace, if at all.  Both experiences point to one central failure—a policing culture that can be hyper‑active where there is pressure and influence, yet strangely comatose when a victim seeks nothing but protection under law. When process becomes the punishment In one set of cases, entrepreneurs narrate how a dispute that should have remained commercial is rapidly escalated into a criminal battle, with the system appearing to run on a presumption of guilt and a readiness to use coercive tools at the complainant’s bidding. The message they receive is brutal : it is not enough to build a healthy business; one must also survive a process...