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- 13 years ago
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For Police Verification in Pune, 100 Rs seems to be a regular `rate'!
- Passport
- Police Verification for Passport
- Paid INR 100
I had applied for renewal of passport. There was a change of address, and the existing passport was to expire in 6 months. The experience at the Passport ********** Kendra was excellent. The form was available online, required documents were clearly mentioned, and there was minimum waiting. My parents are quite old, and they had also applied for passport renewal along with me. They provided wheel chair and all the required assistance for my father, and were very cooperative.
However, my father and I received the `police verification required' remark, and had to go to the police station for verification. We were called at 10 in the morning, and on reaching the police station, provided the forms which we had to get filled from 2 neighbors each. We were asked to submit the forms at 8.30 in the evening.
The person who met us in the morning was not there in the evening. The entire office had a sort of deserted look ... only the applicants who had come in the morning for verification were there, and one person (not in uniform). Why do they need to call you at 8.30 in the night ?
At 8.30 in the evening, we were handed out out application forms, which we had to take to another building for signature of the officer, and return those back after the officer's signature. No one ever asked us for the forms filled by the neighbors. They asked us to pay Rs 100 each.
I do not see what value add the police verification process made to the passport renewal. No one from the police station visited us at our residence. They did not check with our neighbors. They did not even have a cursory look at the forms we got filled from our neighbors. Police verification only seems to delay the passport process, and create another avenue where you have to pay a bribe.