• I Paid A Bribe
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Demand for building completion certificate *******

Reported on January 28, 2012 from Hubli , Karnataka  ι Report #2902

It's almost 6 months since we applied for our building CC. However, no official visited the site. When we went to the office to check the status, they said our file was not there, although we had the acknowledgement. We resubmitted the papers and followed up with the concerned departments (with great difficulty) and finally the guy visited our house. He just started saying that there have been violations and it would be difficult for him to issue a CC. Since I didn't offer any bribe, he realized that I'm not the 'bribe-paying kind'. We were asked to visit the office after a couple of days and when we visited there, he had prepared a long list of violations which amounted to 31,000 rs. Now we came to know thru our engineer that it's customary to charge between 12-15000 as violation fees and pay a bribe to these people so that our CC is issued. No idea what to do next. Feel ashamed to even offer a bribe and can't imagine how these people can sleep after collecting all these bribes. I have got to hear that all the bribe paying processes are done after 6pm. Any ways to stop these guys???

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