False Charge

Long ago, in a village called Magadha, lived a man called Magha. While he was a true humanitarian, most of the people in the little village were given to sinful ways of living. In the evening, the village folk gathered under a banyan tree to discuss the events of the day. You would find people huddled in groups, discussing, gossiping and often it was about how they tipped the village officer to get off. Thefts, murders, etc were the norm in the village. Everyone indulged in them and easily got off  by bribing the officer.

They were not just given to misdeeds but the area where they discussed their misdeeds was unkept and given to liberal littering. Magha decided to clear a part of the meeting ground for himself. As soon as he was done, he saw a group had moved to the area he had cleared. He cleared another area and that too was taken soon. He soon cleared the whole meeting ground and put up an awning so that the villagers could sit in shade. The villagers were touched by Magha's kind act.

The villagers looked up to Magha and under his leadership, they took up various village improvement projects. A building was built for meetings, there was clean drinking water at the meeting ground, and slowly the village became a better place to live. Not just that, the villagers left their sinful ways, imbibed virtues from Magha and engaged themselves in fruitful labour.
They leveled the highways, built causeways, filled up the pits, dug tanks, and did everything so that life in the village would be smoother. Everyone was happy except one, the village officer. Why? Since the villagers were busy in labour and had left their sinful ways, his source of income had gone down. This couldn't go on, he had to do something.

All night he stayed awake wondering what to do. And then he thought of a brilliant plan. He met the king the next day and said, "Your majesty, I'd like to bring to your notice that Magha is spreading anarchy in our village. He has gathered the villagers and is inciting them to commit acts of terror. The villagers haunt the highways with picks, axes and crowbars, and cause menace to the people, everyday. We have to put an end to this.