New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- A Japanese man came to Bengaluru to learn English. Instead, a dispute at an academy landed him in jail for 19 days, a complaint against a police officer set off a years-long legal battle, and a bizarre attempt involving a plastic chair was meant to get him arrested again. He was eventually deported to Japan - but Bengaluru had already given him another reason to stay: he fell in love and married an Indian woman.

Nearly seven years after Hirotoshi Tanaka arrived in the city in 2019, the Karnataka government has finally paid him Rs.75,000 in compensation after the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission found that he had been unnecessarily kept in judicial custody for 19 days, the Indian Express reported.

Yet the str...