• I Paid A Bribe
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Monthly Bribe to Traffic Seargents and Gaurds

Reported on March 8, 2011 from Kolkata , West Bengal  ι Report #27198

We have many business out of which transportation is one, meant exclusively for our internal requirements and as such maintian over 200 nos. of vehicle. We need to bribe the captioned people on a monthly basis per vehicle so that they dont harras our drivers and vehicles. Even then our vehicles are being routinely stopped and fined huge amount as they need to fulfill their targets. Goods vehicle are allowed to operate in the city between 12pm to 4pm. At times are vehicles are stopped at 3:30-3:45pm and falsely implicated for applying during NoEntry. Nowadays they are putting pressure on us to increase their monthly amount due to rise in inflation. If anyone stood at a busy crossing one can openly see how constables catch hold of vehicles at random and drag the poor drivers to their seargents who in turn makes phone calls to owners in order to verify that the said vehicle is paying monthly bribes or not. It is undoubtedly a racket which needs to stop asap. My heart bleeds at times seeing how our own countrymen extorting another under the cover of govt.servants. Were we better off under the British then ?

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