In Gujarat, hundreds of angry migrant workers have defied the lockdown to demand they be allowed to return home, blocking roads and vandalising properties.
Brazilian congressional committee is debating whether to recommend the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff over allegations that she manipulated government accounts to hide a deficit.
Although public goods can be privately owned, it is notoriously hard to extract profits from them given that, by definition, it is difficult to charge people for all the benefits they confer.
On the other hand, there have been hundreds of thefts and cases of deliberate damaging of public property, which usually involves breaking windows or lights, or writing on walls.