- I Paid A Bribe
- 14 years ago
- 4093 views
Nothing works without bribe here.
- Passport
- Police Verification for Passport
- Paid INR 1,000
I wanted to get my son's passport. He is minor, and both me and my wife had valid passports. As such, it should have been very straight-forward experience of getting a minor passport, which doesnot even require a police-verification. But what happened was that even after a month after applying the file had hardly moved. The status on the web page was still "to be delivered on 19-May-2010", when I checked on 20-May-2010. I had to go to the RPO again, to do the enquiry. After that again to make it a Tatkal. After that the status changed to "promised date of delivery on 31-May-2010". It remained like this even on Jun first week. I went again to find out why it didnot come yet.
I had given up, and then I was contacted by a relative who told me about the bribes ruling that place, and said he has a contact there. After paying INR 1000, on Wednesday, the passport was delivered on Thursday. This is really bad.