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Passport office rotten to the core

Reported on May 21, 2012 from Mumbai , Maharashtra  ι Report #33579

My passport appl no is E039969 of 2011. I have made 20 trips to the passport office, since then, and to the police stations too, merely in order to get a new booklet and police verification which apparently had not been done yet for my earlier passports. I have yet not got my passport. Eact time time there is a different problem. for which they have no solution. Other applicants tell me I will not get my passport unless I manage to pay a bribe of Rs 5000 which is the standard payment apaprently. But they will not ask because they are afraid nowadays of sting operaions and RTI, etc. When I had gone to the Griecance officer it happened to be the same passport officer I had talked to first- and she told me to get out that I cannot get a passport. All becaseu I omitted to give the address of a temporary stay away form my permanent address in the year before my new application. These passport officers are anti- national and are accountable to no one. I have filed an RTI now. But I am sure they will withhold my passport as punishment.

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