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- 11 years ago
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Blackmailed into paying bribe
This confession is not out of guilt but pure anger and frustration! Yesterday while crossing the IFFCO flyover junction in my car coming from MG Road towards NH-8 i'd mistakingly overshot a traffic signal. (Please mind this is one of the most ill - planned traffic junction where you can easily miss seeing the traffic signal and can only cross it one shot if you're lucky) I was stopped by an traffic police constable in the middle as light turned red and asked for my papers. And then to my horror the policeman said that i need to give 1100 Rs - 100 Rs for traffic light violation + 1000 Rs for dangerous driving! and i would have to surrender my licence and pay the penalty in court as they don't accept cash (i don't stay in Gurgaon) when i asked him why is he planting this 'Dangerous driving' penalty when i clearly wasn't ( i was crossing it at less than 10 kmph)
When i further insisted him to not penalize me for something i'd clearly not done - he said fine i'll lower your penalty to 500 Rs and you can pay in cash. To which i half-heartedly agreed knowing the inconvenience it will cause me to get the licence back from the court later. But i thought he'd still give me challan for the lowered amount & i paid but infact he was blatantly asking for a bribe and happily walked away with it!
If this not criminal than what is? this particular traffic violation - ' Dangerous driving' is meant to allow these govt. licensed criminals to make quick buck! I would correct myself - i was FORCED to pay a bribe!!