We caught the culprit: what should we do with him Prabhupada?”

Yogeswara Dasa remembers:

There was a young man who was discovered stealing cheques out of the  mail in Bombay in the early days.
The devotees captured him finally and brought him to Srila Prabhupada.

“We found out why the bank is not getting cheques Srila Prabhupada; we caught the culprit. What should we do with him?”

Srila Prabhupada replied, “There’s only one thing to do... forgive him!”

But if someone was a repeat offender then Srila Prabhupada asked them to leave the temple because otherwise they would just be compounding the offenses!