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Kiran Bedi is now a Governor but when she was Delhi Police chief, she was nick-named 'Crane Bedi' as she did not hesitate to order cars to be towed away when the drivers were breaking rules, regardless of the political clout of the offenders! Kiran Bedi talks about Tihar Jail. "When I went in, it was like a human godown with no activities. so we took the responsibilities for the time which prisioners had given to the government as an institution because now what have we done as a jail, we had taken their liberty and control of their time, now we were responsible for how do they spend their time because they can't manage their own time. we gave time a proper time management" Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is a retired Indian Police Service officer, social activist, former tennis player and