- I Paid A Bribe
- 13 years ago
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Paid bribe to police to avoid the renewed passport from being cancelled
- Passport
- Police Verification for Passport
- Paid INR 700
I had my first passport issued in Trichy in 2001 and I renewed my passport in August 2011 in Bangalore. Since there is an address change I was asked to produce two address proofs.(To know that I have produce two address proofs I had to go to the PSKs three times. This is a different story altogether) I got the renewed passport within a month as promised by passport department. I was wondering why no police asked me for verification and left it at that. Then I went to US with the VISA in October 2011 for 15 days and then returned. In June 2012 I got an SMS from police department asking me to come with photo and one address proof. When I went there I was told that my address does not belong to the limits of that police station.(Why can't there be a coordination between police stations and the passport office? Is it my mistake that the passport office sent the document to the wrong police station) Then I took the documents and went to the next police station. Though the SMS had asked for one address proof, I had taken two address proofs. Looking at the documents, the police officer said he needs three address proofs. Funny that the passport office itself asked only for two but the police officer asked for three address proofs. I said fine and then went again and brought the third one. Now he did not find problems in the documents. He asked me why I am coming after 10 months for the police verification. I said I do not know why the passport office was sending it so late. He said, it does not matter but I am still late and that it will take some money to solve the problem of late submission. I know I need not give any money, as there was nothing wrong on my side. But revolting against the police officer can be a problem for me. More than money, I did not want to WASTE anymore time on this. I gave the Rs 700/- he asked for and closed the chapter. I am marking the department as "Passport" as the police officer cited the late document submission as the reason.