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I had to visit the Sub-Registrar's office couple of times for getting…

Reported on May 13, 2015 from Bangalore , Karnataka  ι Report #59837

I had to visit the Sub-Registrar's office couple of times for getting the marriage certificate. I could have avoided multiple visits if the bribe would have been paid on first visit itself. I prepared all the documents after checking lot of forums (infact collected too many extra docs). Ultimately the guy started pointing out random issues and was literately shouting for no reasons. Initially I didn't get the reasons but later on there was one middleman sort of person who mentioned that you 'CAN'T GET AWAY WITHOUT PAYING THE BRIBE'.

I thought let me get the documents done as the govt. guy mentioned (or shouted for). Next time when I reached and I was surprised that he was not able to point out even a single error after going through all the documents for 40-50 mins. He was checking character by character. Ultimately he found out one error in my wife's govt. address proof where instead of 'D/O', it was typed as 'S/O' (mistake by another govt. official). Now that he got a chance, the guy started shouting that he will mention my sex as 'Female' and my wife's sex as 'Male' because in her address proof its mentioned as xxx 'S/O' yyy.

Govt. official literally said that because the other govt. guy did the mistake and he will also repeat that. Now there was no option left but to pay the bribe via the middleman.

I also noticed one important thing that these govt. officials are really good in checking the mistakes but when they were recording all the details in their system, it was done so fast with full of mistakes.

P.S.: The middleman told me that the bribe rate for property registration is very high. So if anybody is planning to buy anything, then please consider bribe in your budget as well. Ache Din Aa Gaye :D

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