Rto — Traffic police forced to pay bribe apart from paying for fine

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Mumbai City, Maharashtra

I was traveling on Mumbai Goa highway on 30th December 2014. A group of police intercepted at Kashedi Ghat near Poladpur and asked to show me all my car documents. I had all my documents, only PUC was pending to be renewed. The traffic police asked to pay fine. I agreed to pay fine of Rs 500 (as instructed by police). But then he said, he will fine Rs 100 and demanded Rs 300 total (Rs 200 as bribe). I said 'why extra Rs 200 when I am anyway getting fined for Rs 100). Since the police is king and we are caught at awkward situation, we have to bribe. They start threatening about higher fines, court procedures etc. So in all 3 illegal things happened. 1> The police should not have stopped me for any reason 2> I insisted on full fine receipt, but they forced Rs 100 fine receipt and Rs 200 as bribe. 3> When I checked rules, they do not have right to fine for no PUC. They could have simply kept my license, given me a receipt of keeping license, I could have done PUC and taken back the license from them. In all I have below to say. As far as my experience is concerned, Police is kind of dacaits. They are not cooperative where they could have judged a driver on how he is driving, he is with family etc.They trouble an ordinary citizen, but would let go real trouble makers.