Are there no businessmen, who
would like to see the end of corruption ?
There are too many, but it requires a mass
movement, to fight this cancer ... are you
ready to join in ...
Corruption
is rampant ...Yes...but you will not
know, unless you go through the experience
...how difficult it is, to refuse a so called
"bribe" and what
happens when you go to Anti-Corruption
Bureau.
Till
1980 (age 33 then) I refused to
pay a bribe to anyone, though I
was in business, running a
factory in Bombay... In that year
I along with a friend approached
the ACB at Bombay, (one Mr Dembla
was the head) against a Muncipal
Engineer, who wanted Rs 8000 from
each gala in our building, for
having constructed some lofts
(amount 8000 X 40 galas)... so
I told, the head of
ACB that, this Asst Engineer of
BMC was triying to get Rs 3 lacs
plus FROM OUR BUILDING ALONE (his
salary then must be Rs 6000 pm)
... Mr Dembla's response shocked
me "Rs 3 lacs is
nothing, here this file is about
60 lacs, the other one is for 80
lacs, what is Rs 3 lacs". This was
1980 now the lakhs have turned
into crores.
He
further told us that once we get this
Engineer trapped, his colleagues wll
start harassing us on other issues,
and ACB will not be able to help. We
dropped the idea, of getting the
Engineer trapped "2 days
later we offered the Engineer Rs
2000, instead of Rs 8000, he was
collecting from others". Told
him to take it or we go to ACB...he
accepted Rs 2000. That was the
beginning of my offering
"bribes" thereafter, on
VERY RARE occasions.
In December
2005, I approached ACB Bombay and met ACP
Dilip Samel, about an amount of Rs 50,000
extorted by API Walzade of Khar Police
station, from my family, after he had
illegally arrested me...I had also filed a
writ in the Bombay HC about it... This ACP
was trying to scare me, saying
"First I will have to investigate from
where you got Rs 50,000" ...
only he was unprepared for my response "I
stole it from your house, from where you got
Rs 50,000"...thereafter. I
explained to him, that I had already met the
Police commissioner of Bombay Mr A N Roy and
DGP Dr Pasricha, who had not tried the
tactics he was trying, to scare me... He then
accepted my complaint, but has done nothing.
So, it is easy
to say, give no bribes, but for that to be
taken seriously, a citizens movement has to
be started, which I am attempting to, visit www.ikchhugani.com/policing.htm
Was I an extra
ordinary business man, running a factory and
refusing to pay "bribes" ... no sir
... most of the businessmen hate to pay, what
the general public calls "bribe"
... Most of the time, it is extortion
"Pay us or we will harass you" and
then they find some obscure law under which,
they can proceed against you in court...once
the matters go to court, you end up spending
so much time in court, that your business
suffers ... so most people think it is wiser
to pay.
I have been
prosecuted and a arrest warrant issued
against me (because summons never reached
me), for not having written, the name of my
company Sellaids Publications I Ltd., in
Marathi, outside the office (must
read Warrant Industry)...finally a fine of
Rs 900/- was paid in court.... At
another time, I have had a criminal case
filed, against me and the company, for not
filing ESIC return in time (put in an
explanation, that the Company has no staff
since April 2002,) but refused to pay the
Inspector, so ended up having to attend court
for 4 years (for non payment of Rs 4,300/-
...their estimate, according to the last
return), had to spent Rs 30,000 plus in
getting acquited after 4 years... The problem
was, after the ESIC filed the case in court,
I was ready to pay up Rs 4,300/-, due
or not, to avoid running in
courts... But explained, my Lawyer, if you
plead guilty, there is a mandatory 6 months
jail term the Magistrate will give you, so we
have to plead not guilty (which was the
fact) and do not worry, under the ESIC
act, no one has gone to jail, in last 30
yrs...(visit what a waste) though ESIC has filed
1000s of cases.
Regarding
bogus case against me at Khar Police Station,
read below:
(On 30th
January 06, the MPID court discharged me and
came to the conclusion that there
was no order to seal the flat,
no evidence to show that the flat was sealed
and noted that the banks had concealed many
facts before the court ... 2 applications
have been filed by me for action against the
4 bank managers and one police officer for
perjury and tampering with court records ...
pending.
On 15th
February 2006, the high court stayed all
proceedings, at Khar Police station, but in
contempt of HC order, chargesheet was filed
on 3rd May 2006 by Inspector Vijay Dhatrak
... explanation received through RTI ...
Officer was too busy with other work, so did
not read high court order. Chargesheet filed
by mistake.. This Dhatrak is now suspended in
false Chaturvedi case).
