- मैंने रिश्वत दी
- 13 years ago
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Blackfield..!!!
- Municipal Services
- Khata Transfer
- Paid INR 5,000
As you would've guessed from the title, it happened in Whitefield, Bangalore. Believe me, I feel very bad i paid a bribe, but they just wouldn't get my job done otherwise. I had bought a flat and wanted the Katha to be transferred to my name. I went to the BBMP(City Corporation) office situated near my locality, and handed over the document copies. I was asked to fill a form, which to my dismay was entirely in Kannada. I understand that it is the language of the land and it should be given due importance et al. But no unversal language in the most cosmopolitan of Indian cities is absolutely weird and just unjust. So i asked the assistant there to help me fill the forms. He was only too happy to do that and filled it swiftly. To this day, i have no idea what he wrote in my form. He may well have written i am an idiot and got me sign under it voluntarily. I thought i was all set. And then he breached the subject. Because, let us face it, whatever the language in the forms, the lingua france for all govt offices is - The Smiling Gandhi. He said, you have to get a demand draft, then i'll get the forms signed and hand them over to you, and then you have to go to offices in KR Puram...********** Nagar..Mahadevapura..Whitefield..and get them signed by the officers there. It will take atleast a day each for you in these offices. I said i dont mind and that i will get them done. He said, think about all the revenue losses and how many days' leave you will be wasting. Not to mention that the officers should be present when you go there. And then the punch line - all that trouble 'if and only if' the application moves from MY desk. Or, pay me the amount and i'll get everything done for you. Now, i wanted to be stubborn and not give in to his threats. But i was to travel out of country pretty soon and so i agreed to pay him. It has been 3 months since, and i haven't heard a word from him. He is never in the office, never picks calls and has just vanished. So now, am out of 5K and job still not done. Long live my nation.