• Bribe Fighter
• 14 years ago
• 1255 views

Insurance Expired for my 2 wheeler

• Police
• Activities on Beat

I would like to iterate you an incident which has happened to me few days back
Recently while I was travelling back from Imax, Necklace Road the police department people, to be more precisely not the traffic police department but the actual police department people in khaki dress have caught me for usual document checkup, and to my bad luck my insurance coverage has expired 2days back which I was unaware of and I request him that I would get it done by tomorrow early morning as it was already 8 in the evening but he was rude to me and asked me to pay fine and I was ready to do it. He was asking me for bribe but I was very sure not to bribe him and said I am ready to pay him the actual fine amount which is Rs. 300/- where as my insurance premium was just 800 and since I was not carrying much cash I asked him to send the receipt(e-chalan) to my home and I would pay it online but he was very rude and was saying “I am not your servant to come and pick the money from your home”… I had to go back to the nearest ATM and draw the cash and get my vehicle from these culprits…. and finally I did not bribe the police and paid him the exact amount for it and took a chalan for this... While I was doing my fine payment he was accepting bribes from others and relieving them, I have few suggestions on this, see if these can be implemented?

1) I would like to know when we already have a designated Traffic police department why the Police department are involving in checking the documents and increasing the probability of corruption?
2) When we already have the facility of online chalan system, where in the chalan will be sent to home and the payment needs to be done online why can’t that be utilized properly and ease people, like in my case I wasn’t carrying much cash (My bad again) but had to draw the cash to get my vehicle from there?
3) This online chalan system if used strictly and completely stop cash transactions corruption can be stopped at least to a better extent, also if we can amend a rule that if any cash transactions are taken then both the briber and the department people can be sued/punished.

The above thoughts are just a concern.