- Bribe Fighter
- 14 years ago
- 1398 views
Didn't pay a bribe but was it worth it
Hello
About 20 days before I was hauled up as my co-passenger had not put on the seat belt. Influenced by this site and ********** Hazare I decided to pay up rather than bribe. Big Mistake. I was told licence will be collected and can pay fine at local traffic chowky. The receipt will entitle me to drive for 15 days. The expiry was 13/5/2011. Went to the traffic chowky on 09/5/2011 was told that it has been sent to Worli Traffic HQ will come to the local court on 13/5/2011. The traffic havaldar who had caught had mentioned that anybody with the receipt can collect the licence. When my friend went to local court to collect on my behalf, he was told I would have to come personally. 13/5/2011 was a Friday and Sat and Sun were holidays for the court.
Monday I went to court to collect the licence but was told that since I did not collect it on Friday it was sent back to Worli HQ and I will have to collect it from there. Took me an hour and half to reach Worli HQ and 30 mins at HQ to collect the licence. Then another hour and half to reach my office from there. Nearly wasted half a day.
Agreed that this was due to my ignorance of the laws but then these processes should be mentioned somewhere or the traffic havaldar must atleast read them out to me.
Next I want to conver my licence from book to card but this time am seriously thinking of paying a bribe and getting it done through n agent. The reasons are
1) No idea of the procedure. It is not even on their website.
2) Nothing online will have to go the nearest RTO which is quite far.
3) Wastage of God knows How many office days.
4) Not worth the time and energy wasted. *******