You're right it wasn't true back then. I don't live in India anymore, but I believe a lot of security measures (and security theater) were implemented after the

You're right it wasn't true back then. I don't live in India anymore, but I believe a lot of security measures (and security theater) were implemented after the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks.