- Bribe Fighter
- 13 years ago
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Not paid a single paise to get the passport
I am originally from west bengal.I did my masters from IIT Madras.There(Chennai) I applied for my passport about the end of my 1st year(early 2008). They informed me for permanent address verification all the documents were sent to west bengal. After completion of 1st year I came to home in holiday, it was almost 3 months after my application,still police didn't come to my home to verify my permanent address. So I went to district IB(intelligence bureau)office in Chinsurah. The IB officers nowdays are responsible for passport related issues. Ultimately I met the appropriate authority who was an young officer.First day he behaved very nicely and searched all the files if the documents had reached to his office or not. I also checked the registered book whether my name was there or not. But it was not there.I informed him that after one week I would leave for Chennai.He told me to come after 2days. When I went again to his office he politely informed me that he searched in other files but really the documents didn't come to his office. Since that was a big room and other office staffs were sitting in other part of the room he calmly showed his right palm(indicating 500 rupees)and asked me to decide if I would like to pay that amount to get my passport without permanent address verified or otherwise to go through in normal process which suppose to take more time. Then only I decided not to pay a single money, but I didn't tell anything to him and simply came back to home. After coming back to Chennai I went to passport office to inquire the status of my passport.Still they informed that all the documents were sent to west bengal but didn't come back.My GRE ********** was very near, for that I needed the passport. After few days I took the GRE application printout and requested for urgent processing in passport office. Regional passport officer met with me and assured that within 14 days I will get that.Ultimately after 20 days, before 10 days of my exam passport reached to my hostel. So ultimately honestly I got my passport without paying a single paise as a bribe.