A staggering rise in mobile phone usage in India has stoked an unacceptable surge in public rudeness and the most annoying offenders should be sent to prison, according to the country’s equivalent to the House of Lords.

India’s 277 million mobile users “often create nuisance,” the Committee on Petitions, an influential panel of the Rajya Sabha, the national parliament’s upper house, recently decreed.

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