Chori karo .. lekin pakde mat jao !!

This vacation is turning out to be "back to basics" educational !

One of my very close relatives, working as a bank manager in a nationalized bank, has been suspended from his work for last 4-5 months.

I was shocked to hear that as he comes across as an honest guy and was not expecting him to be suspended from work because of negligence or malpractice.

I asked him, how it happened. And this is the story.

He has been away from Orissa for a long time now. He is being posted in rural areas of Assam and West Bengal. While his wife and three kids have been in a city studying. He has never been home and gotten desperate.

He wanted to get close to his family and asked for a transfer to a different place.
The officer who was in charge of posting, asked him to talk to someone, who is no way related to the bank. He was suspicious but desperate. He went ahead and talked to that guy.

The guy told, you have to pay Rs 20K (bribe) for the officer to change your place of work.
After some thinking, he went back and said, OK.

Here is the funny thing. The person wanted the money in form of a DEMAND BANK DRAFT.

Who does it ? Who takes bribe in any other form that cash ?

That should have triggered some brain wave. But he was desperate.

He paid it in a draft.

The draft was caught be internal vigilance of the bank and he was suspended. Now waiting out the hearing.

Only as a post investigation, he came to know that the officer in question, is very ill famous for taking bribe for transfers. And vigilance was after him for that. He wanted a case, where he wanted to show that people offer him money but he does not accept it. What better than asking for a demand draft .. duh !

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This is the same guy, who fell for National Lottery scam on e-mail a year ago, and I talked him out of it !