- मैंने रिश्वत दी
- 13 years ago
- 565 दर्शनों की संख्या
This happened long back but I thought i would add it here
- Passport
- Renewal of Passport
- Paid INR 2,000
I was making a business trip from India to Europe (multiple countries). Now my Indian paossport was issued in NYC (as I lived there for many years). But some goofup they (NYC counsulate) renewed my passpoart from 1989 to 1984 (not 1994). No one noticed. I flew to India. Flew to Uk and ack to India untill my passport went for a German visa. They told me to get the passport corrected. Meanwhile I had made a seris of appointments and schedules incl. flight and hotel bookings.
The passport office ran me pillar to post and after about 3 full days of virtually living at the passport office I was still getting no where. Oddly a friend of mine told me he could help and he did. he directd me to an officer who help me get my new passport. The officer did not ask for any money. However the next day when I went to collect my corrected passport the peon asked for Rs. 2000. Now I had my flight the same night. I had spent the better part of 4 days at the passport office. Frustrated I paid him took my passport and left.
Was I doing something wrong?
Was I not entitled to a corrected passport in the frist place?
Was I a criminal who was escaping the law by making this foriegn trip?
What is my goofup and if so did not the Indian and UK govt.s make the same goofup by not noticing that my passport had technically exprired?