- I Paid A Bribe
- 13 years ago
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Only Last Trap
- Public Services
- Bribing of Government Officers
- Paid INR 1,200
I executed a small work order by upgrading a PC along with Genuine Windows'95 OS with other utility services on order. As I had been supporting a office of CPWD in connaught place for their IT needs at that time. (supplying a skilled computer operator with daily trouble shooting along with expert advice). After few months the executing engineer was persuaded to upgrade existing PC which was DOS based to support windows'95. After finishing the work the bill went to account department just ahead of the circle -IX to central circle of cpwd. There (dealing in accounts) I could not get the my payment. The person involved continuously started asking questions about my connections with the cpwd and the work I executed. It was purely technical, when entire office concerned was satisfied Executive Engineer was satisfied and the PC was installed along with the genuine OS with its certificate of authenticity was there. He said that they cpwd bought 250 copies of d-BASE-III+ at that time and got commission etc. I said I did a small job and the margin is limited to just Rs. 2000.00 only and I have to support the upgraded PC for 1 year it is written in the contract. He was able to extract Rs. 1200/- from me to make my cheque worth Rs. 24,000/-. That was the end of my work with CPWD as I was not interested to get work on paying bribe. Though technical people may be don't ask for bribe they ask for technical work, but accounts people they ask only money on amount of cheque they prepaird.
In this may be little date is not accurate, if I am able to get that old bill then the date can be acertained but that habit of mine lead me to workless today not paying money back to the provider of work.
Thanks and regard
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