Sunday, May 18, 2008

Ordeal at the Traffic commissionerate

This is in continuation with my previous blog. This was a first hand experience with dealing with law earlier it was thru corrupted or secondary means.Though it was not a pleasant experience I swear.

To add to my woes i had to visit the place twice - both the times it looked like God had planned it specifically for me or in other words i was destined for it. It was thursday, 15th of May when the sky was cloudy and the sight of clouds brought a relief to eyes and body in contrast to the cruel heat of the sun. I thought its going to be a relief thinking that at least now there wont be torturing heat to beat my senses out of me.But seems something else was planned for me.When i was almost midway on the flyover it started to rain incessantly. I was completely drenched and driving against a strong breeze and rain.Thanks to my bike that i was able to sustain that despite driving at an average speed of 70-80 kmph....To tell you all guys it was the rain i had seen in gurgaon after a long long time.Facing all the odd when i reached the traffic office a big puddle of rain water was waiting for me, after i parked my bike and went to the office. Though i was completely drenched i thought if i could get my license out then it would worth the beating i had already taken.But when i tried to get thru the muddy water i got my shoes all wet( as my socks were the only thing i thut were dry till then).On reaching the window for the challan submission i found out that since power was not there for quite a while that day their UPS was out of charge and without that they will not be able to process my request.Hence i had to come back empty handed that day and then change my drenched clothes and move to office.This is the end of my first unsuccessful attempt to retrieve my license from the clutches of law.

The next attempt was to come sooner when the forthcoming monday i thought to get my license despite all odds.When i started from home it was already drizzling and situation was similar to last time when i had my unsuccessful attempt.So i tried taking a different route to change my luck( just a thought).When i reached the traffic office it was still drizzling but when i got down my bike it stopped. Thought it was a good sign to move forward plus the thought of getting my license without shelling of any cash was overwhelming me(As told by the cop who had challaned me ). In contrast to my expectation i found a short line of only 10 ppl before me and then when i reached my spot i was asked to produce my originals. But then it was time for the surprise to unfurl when i was slapped a fine of Rs 400 on the charge of violating some pollution act which i had no clue of.I didn't have the patience of arguing as i had suffered a lot and wanted to get away it.But the last curtain was still to be drawn.He asked me to submit the photo copies of the documents. And the photo stat office was almost a km away from the location which meant getting delayed by another half an hour or so.But luckily i had photo copies of the docs which i carried all the time. Thankfully i got all my docs without any more hassles.

Moral of the story : Do not twist your muscle with law.Try dealing with it on the spot.Use any means but get away with it.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hahahaha, That was funny.

Well, just a small correction to your "Moral of the Story"

"Do not twist your muscle with the law, do not try to deal with it on the spot, rather, run away from law. Think that the law doesn't exist at all".

If you would have opened up your throttle a lit more on the first day, you would have escaped all these tortures.

But anyway, what has happened cannot be changed, you can only learn from your mistakes.

From the day I have started believing in DESTINY, I think you were destined to face these 2 eventful days. I have been driving in bangalore without a license for almost 2 years, and I haven't been ever caught. This is my DESTINY.

But, it was funny.

krishna kishore reddy said...

Hhhhoooooooooooo . . . .
You never learnt handling the cops in reddy's istyle. Before the cop starts yelling u should should say "idli sambar vada reddy nayudu chinnaswamy peddaswamy muthuswamy periaswami . . . . " He would have sent you with a big salaaam.

neways, blog was superb except for more"CONTRAST"s.
I feel the moral from your posts is "No cop should ever be HONEST as his prime intention would be to make govt happy by letting ppl pay more n more challans for the mistakes which they haven't done.