- मैंने रिश्वत दी
- 13 years ago
- 712 दर्शनों की संख्या
Recovery of Personal Belongings from Packers & Movers, could manage to get material after a month but no punishment for offenders
- Police
- Lodging Police Complaint
- Paid INR 2,500
I had booked my complete household belongings to be moved from Gurgaon to Guwahati by one Sree ********** Cargo Packers from Gurgaon. I had given my relocation requirement online and they had contacted me in response to my query as many others had also done. We picked up lowest quote and finalised the move. Team of packers & movers picked up my luggage from Gurgaon on 27 Sep with a commitment to deliver in Guwahati in 7 days time. After around 12 days when we started rigorous chase, we were told that truck has reached Guwahati and material will be delivered the next day. This story continued for aroun 3 days, and then finally the contact person of packers & movers told that he is not aware of whereabouts of the material and is in no position to say anything. We tried to put lot of pressure with exploiting personal contacts in police to give him warning calls but it did not work. Finally, we had to lodge a proper complaint and the same was done in P.S. Sec 5, Gurgaon. In addition to this some pressure was also put through a senior police officer posted at Gurgaon. As a result when police tried to chase this transporter, he started responding in 4 days time. Finally with lot of hazzles luggage was handed over back to us in Gurgaon on 23 Oct, which was lying in his godown so far. Payment for the services to transporter Rs 20000/- was paid to him in advance. Around late evening on 23 Oct, in the PS, transperter tried to bargain for money offering Rs 16000/- back to us. After very hard NEGOTIATIONS he paid Rs 19,500/- and thereafter the cops came on his side and started to explain, "saab aap 500 Rs ke liye itna kar rahe ho, aapka lakhon ka saman mil gaya yeh kam hai kya, aise cases mein toh saman hi haath nahi aata". Left with no other option we had to accept that amount. The cops even did not give us copy of material receipt that was given to transporter saying that we have got our luggage now, so why do we want that reciept. Thereafter, as a courtesy, we called up that senior police officer to inform about finding of luggage and thank him, he very politely told us to pay some 2000 - 4000 Rs to the cops at PS. We paid Rs 2500/- to the Police. Effectively, a common man got harrassed over a month for chasing his belongings, saught police help, that too worked only because of intervention from a senior officer, suffered some damanges on luggage, got Rs 500 short on the payment made for services which were not provided and landed up paying a bribe of Rs 2500/- to cops to help us retrieve the material. The culprit, the fake packers & movers were left scot free or may be they also paid something to cops to settle it.