Rahul Mehta Gandhinagar LsCandidate

Reduction in corruption after demo?
.
Here is a post I got from a public website, by some person named Phillip. (I dont know him, but I read this website a lot)
.
-----
.
https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7280&start=6320#p2098200
.
Post by Philip » 06 Jan 2017 20:25

Yesterday we were in the company of two successful industrialists. To cut a long story short,both have been victims of huge bribe demands by factory inspectors and a commissioner of one particular industry.For obvious reasons I cannot give further details.
.
This was for no favours whatsoever,simple regular filing of papers,etc. as per norms.
.
Both refused saying that why did they have to pay for no violation whatsoever.
.
One gent who has many industries,has been slapped with a huge fine of over a crore,plus a penalty,and has no other course of action but to go to court and pay a huge court fee of over 30 lakhs,while the other gent is mulling over whether to bargain over the amt. of bribe or resist like his friend.
.
This is all happening in the aftermath of the demon project.How will corruption be stopped when govt. officials are so brazen? I told both that they needed to fight back ,this was the time to do so when the GOI was on a crusade against corruption and send letters to the PMO,vigilance,etc.,etc,of the alleged bribe demands from the officials.

Some years ago,there was a report in the national media that a weekly in a Maharashtra town regularly published the names of officials who had demanded bribes.and promised to give new cases in the next weekly issue.it was so successful that some of the the bribe-askers even went to the weekly's office to plead for their names not to be mentioned! Unless the public stand up and refuse to pay bribes and expose the corrupt officials,things will soon return to "normal service". The GOI of the day has to clean the cobwebs in the corridors of power first before attempting to clan the houses of the public.
.
-----------------
.
I dont know how true or fiction this above story is. But too many people tell me similar stories.