- Bribe Fighter
- 14 years ago
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Out-of-state Vechicle re-registration/road-tax case
Seven years back when I'd just moved to B'lore I took my car to Bangalore-South RTO (Jayanagar BDA Complex) with all the necessary paperwork. As per the RTO website, all required documents, forms very absolutely ready & complete, yet on reaching RTO they made me run all over, asking for this/that, refilling form citing it as not legible, citing chasis-number imprint as unclear etc. Finally after spending 4 hours, I got really frustrated, and create a massive hue-n-cry about this in full public view at the top of my voice. I asked them at the top of my voice, if they are going to proceed with registration or not or still had more excuse until I paid a bribe. Finally a woman came up from behind one of the desks, and took me aside saying that give me your papers, I will get it done. She did the thing silently, and I paid not a penny as a bribe. It also involved a uniformed RTO inspector, who was collecting bribe as usual via a "chaiwala" proxy, and there too, I made it a point to make enough loud noise and attract public attention.
In the end I lost a day from work, but walked away with my dignity, honour, pride and close to 5-6K in bribe money.