Corrupt traffic police.... Shame!
These are days of the Lokpal. What a common man like me understands by this is that the bill is, by someway, going to reduce the corruption.
Hope that only happens!
Well, this evening I set out to the Nirmal Lifestyles Mall in Mulund, Mumbai. I was passing by the street where this road traffic police had been talking with a car driver (or owner, may be). This young driver, upon the police's asking him his license, went behind the police and handed over a Rs. 100 note to him. The police took it readily and without uttering a word, let the boy go.
This, what I saw, is a shocking experience for me for I'd only heard about these things in the past but got to see it for the first time.
All I could do within these 5 seconds of act between the boy and the police is to stare them with some kind of weird look that had an expression of both shock and anger. Upon noticing this, the police saw me, put his head down and started to walk towards the police jeep which was standing at a distance from this incident site. The boy then got into his car, still looking at me with surprise and started to smile and winked at me before he left that place. This wink really might be meaning that- "Dude, you may have watched this stuff for the first time, but this is how it works. Or perhaps, this is how it will be working even hence forth."
Sad, truly sad! At one hand we have some handful of wise people who are aiming that corruption be eradicated from the society. And on the other hand, we have these youth who are blossoming the corruption.
What say!
Incredible India, truly(?) , isn't it?
Hope that only happens!
Well, this evening I set out to the Nirmal Lifestyles Mall in Mulund, Mumbai. I was passing by the street where this road traffic police had been talking with a car driver (or owner, may be). This young driver, upon the police's asking him his license, went behind the police and handed over a Rs. 100 note to him. The police took it readily and without uttering a word, let the boy go.
This, what I saw, is a shocking experience for me for I'd only heard about these things in the past but got to see it for the first time.
All I could do within these 5 seconds of act between the boy and the police is to stare them with some kind of weird look that had an expression of both shock and anger. Upon noticing this, the police saw me, put his head down and started to walk towards the police jeep which was standing at a distance from this incident site. The boy then got into his car, still looking at me with surprise and started to smile and winked at me before he left that place. This wink really might be meaning that- "Dude, you may have watched this stuff for the first time, but this is how it works. Or perhaps, this is how it will be working even hence forth."
Sad, truly sad! At one hand we have some handful of wise people who are aiming that corruption be eradicated from the society. And on the other hand, we have these youth who are blossoming the corruption.
What say!
Incredible India, truly(?) , isn't it?
u have just seen it for the first timem, i have gone through it paying 50 bucks that too not once, two times on the same day...for same reason i.e. breaking traffic signal one at sion the other at mahim..
ReplyDeleteyou break the traffic signal's rules and regulations and blame over traffic police??? huh?
DeleteiPriyanka
Well all I can say is "Welcome to INDIA"
ReplyDeletei am hurt after reading this! only the daughters or sons can feel the pain behind the traffic police! i need to talk over it! for sure!
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