Looks like police of Aligarh is having shortage of funds (money for chai pani) so what they do is stand on road side and check all the papers of every vehicle passing by. It’s obvious that not everyone will be having all the papers which include registration, insurance, license etc and they have a chance of asking money for letting you go. Yesterday I was going with my mechanic to buy that rubber paint and they caught me and I had no papers! I took one of the constables in corner and asked of how to get rid of this problem now. He smiled and said to talk with the driver of police wan. I talked to him and at last he came to his point and asked for Rs.150 (about 4$). I asked him if he had a change of Rs.50 and he shamefully said yes. I gave him Rs.200 and he was quick to handover the change, I thanked him and went away. This small bribe saved me from the hassle of challan and saved time as well. However I will now carry all the original papers from now and then see, but I know I’ll have to pay the bribe every time they check because they point out some or the other mistakes in your paper and they know everything is right but for money they do it. I can remember once I had all the papers but the cop said that registration paper looks fake! (though it was not). But today when I was going with my friend Waseem to see his center for his exam, again they caught us and luckily this time Waseem did had his driving license with him. They however fined for not having other papers. While police men were doing their job and telling us to carry papers always, we were happy to have some stuff for blog LOL!

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