• I Paid A Bribe
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Paid 500 to get Pension money of my father

Reported on August 19, 2011 from Mysore , Karnataka  ι Report #4623

I belong to a upper middle class family. I dont reside in India right now, but this small incident happened back in 2006. My father was a Govt employee and died in 1999. It took almost seven years of lethargic process to get all funds monies from my father's pension related stuff. Fortunately nobody asked us the bribe during that and we never offered. But in 2006 there was one last amount of 2-3 lakhs pending from the Mysore treasury dept and it had to be cleared by an official.
I traveled from Bangalore to Mysore only for this purpose. The official initially didnt cooperate and bluntly said come next week, hes got lot of work etc. Much pleading of my situation didnt work. Then my uncle who resides in Mysore called him outside and offered bribe of 500 which I gave him. At that moment the behavior of the official completely changed. He talked to me nicely, apologized and got my work done in 10 mins. I never want to offer paying a bribe, but I was helpless because I couldnt afford to travel for 150 miles again and again just to get a file signed. So I was victimized through blackmail and forced to pay a bribe.

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