It is absolutely believeable as the immigration/custom/airport authorities also belong to the same corrupt goverment cadre.
These are same people who allow terrorist to board flights and get their more dreadlier counterparts released.
My feeling is the couple should have attempted to bribe the guys. I am absolutely certain they would have saved a lot of pain. They forgot that this is INDIA. If you can pay, then you can get away with anything. JUST BRIBE and ENJOY LIFE, then be it traffic signal or immigration.
RE:SHAME SHAME
by dominic on Dec 21, 2006 12:55 PM Permalink
Sanjeev, do you think they did not try to bribe the officials? Only when the officials refused to tow their line, this Vijay or whoever must have started abusing the officials, and then only these guys must have thought of teaching this so called IT Techy guy a lesson. Kudos to officials for a change. Mera Bharat Mahan!
Forgetting to carry the passports/visas is no excuse. You should have been more responsible. The point is you guys take this country for granted. Would you dare take such a chance with the US??? You deserved it thoroughly. I feel sorry for your kids though for having such irresponsible parents.
Please don't dramatise by bringing in racism here.
This is total stupidity for immigration officials. They are kind of thieves.. always in search of finding petty small issues... that might help their promotion in the job. They are similar to custom official always looks to extract money from people. Well they really need a crash course of Human behaviour and definitely they should be trained how to respect your country and coutryman.
While the immigration officials should not have been so hardhanded about the 45 minutes time limit for getting the fax and the partiality shown to the French citizen, how can you forget the visas for both your kids when you have planned your travel so much ahead? You remembered to bring your GCs but not your kids' visas, considering that you know how Indian officials can behave?
The primary mistake is on you - you were so careless and got penalized harshly.