Customs Corrupting Young Minds
HE is hardly 23 years old. A bright young man, a product of a premier IIT, now studying in a top university in USA. He hardly has any spare money in US. He saved through starvation and came on a visit to India with some cheap goodies for his family and friends. He browsed the CBEC website thoroughly and armed with knowledge that he was a law abiding person, tried to walk through the green channel, when he was accosted by a khaki uniformed officer who took him to a small group of white uniformed high rank looking white uniformed officers who grilled him and wanted to search his baggage. After sometime he realized that all this was for a small speed money of a hundred dollars which he paid, because he was eager to meet his anxious parents waiting outside. Even as he was eating the tasty food prepared by his doting mother, the taste of the bribe he had to pay was spoiling the mood for him. He has decided never to work in India and now advises his friends in USA on how to get through Indian Customs. “just like in any Indian Market, you can haggle with them on the amount of bribe”, he advises.