- Honest Officer
- 14 years ago
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Roses for not taking bribe
Dear citizens,
It is nice that I am able to once again present my small contribution towards eradicating the menance of corruption. I had earlier reported my story about how I resisted from paying a bribe at the Banaswadi Sub-registrar's office and I had also filed two applications under Right to Information Act seeking information about various aspects regarding registration, maintenance of dispute register and the process of appointing casual labour in the office and this application was filed on 15/10/2010.
I approched the Banaswadi Sub-registrar, to register the property of my client and to my suprise the staff of the office were very codial and one of the casual labour approached me and informed that the Sub-registrar wished to see me and I accepted his invitation and after getting my sale deed verified and I took the same to be presented to the Sub-registrar, he gave a very nice smile and invited me to sit and expressed his regret for his behaviour the other day and it was nice to hear the same, he stated that he was not in a good mood and that was the reason he behaved badly and he requested me to forget the past incident and to start THINGS AFRESH. After he had finished his talk I informed him the it was nice of him to relise his mistake and I also informed that I would continue my fight against corruption and he stated that they were other organisations to look into that and that I should not break my head over the same as the same would affect my work as well as his, I replied back saying that it would be nice if he and I were to join hands in a small way to fight corruption and I also requested him to look into the two applications filed by me under the Right to Information Act and he looked at me as if he was suprised and stated that he did not know about any such applications filed and he called one of the person in the office and enquired about the same and he informed him about the said applications, I feel that he just wanted to show that he was not aware of the same.
After the registration of the sale deed, I wanted to express my appreciation towards the Sub-registrar, hence I had purchased about twenty pink roses which were individually nicely warped and I requested the seller and buyer who I was representing to sit before the Sub-registrar and interdouced them to the officer and also informed them that the Sub-registrar had not received any bribe for registering the sale deed and hence as a token of appreciation I asked them to present two roses each to the Sub-registrar and I also presented two roses to the officer and thanked him and he gracefully received the flowers and shook hands with us, I intended to give the entire staff a rose but unfortunately it was lunch time and they had gone to have their lunch.
I think it takes a little effort from all of us and we can make the system work in clean environment.
Regards,
A Reforming *******