MNC executive launches Facebook page; to protest outside sub-registrar's office in Noida too
MNC executive launches Facebook page; to protest outside sub-registrar's office in Noida too
He was asked for a bribe and when he refused to pay it and threatened to expose the officials involved, he was assaulted.
An executive with an MNC, Gaurav Bakshi however didn't leave it there. Besides lodging a formal complaint with police, he has now started a campaign on social networking site Facebook to fight against corruption in the government organisations. Called Choosna Bandh campaign, it has already brought more than 1700 people together against the corruption.
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Explaining why he chose this name, Gaurav said that it was symbolic and depicted how some government officials virtually suck the blood of citizens by demanding bribes. "I want to highlight how corruption is deeply entrenched in different layers of society and how common man has had enough and wants a change."
Besides online protest, Gaurav has decided to take it to the streets too. "We want action against the accused. Corruption is the biggest crime and we have to stop this. Our protest march will be attended by social activist Arvind Kejriwal and this will encourage locals to fight against corruption."
A silent protest will be staged outside sub registrar's office in Noida. It was here Gaurav was demanded bribe by the officials for registration of adoption deed of his child.
| How it started |
| After he got his marriage registered last month, Gaurav realised that a part of the Rs 25,000 fee that he paid for it was actually taken as bribe by the officials. So to expose it, he went to the registrar's office to get an adoption deed registered and secretly recorded his conversation with one of the clerks in the office who admitted that a part of the fee they charge for registration is actually bribe money. He said on confronting the deputy registrar with this evidence, he was first threatened and later while coming out of the premises was waylaid by a few men who beat him and snatched his camera. These men, one of whom allegedly claimed to be the secretary of a bar association also assaulted Gaurav's father who was accompanying him. He then lodged an FIR with Sector 24 police station at Noida naming deputy registrar R K Gautam and a clerk in his office as accused. |
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