Over 72 hours after a Mumbai shopkeeper was assaulted for not speaking in Marathi - his ordeal filmed and circulated online by the assailants - and over 24 hours after the FIR was filed, the police finally recorded the statements of the seven accused. The seven men deposed at the Deputy Commissioner of Police's office but were not taken into custody. Why no arrest so far? Does this hooliganism have sanction of the state?