Motorist jailed for bid to bribe inspector
MOTORIST has been jailed for a year for trying to bribe a vehicle inspector to declare his car fit for the road when it was not. The Indian man, aged 30, will be deported at the end of his sentence.
He denied the charge but was convicted by the Lower Criminal Court, where he was also found guilty of failing to transfer the ownership of the vehicle into his name.
The defendant was arrested at the General Directorate of Traffic vehicle inspection centre in May this year. He had taken his car in for another inspection after it was failed earlier because of several faults, the court heard. But he had not fixed the faults and instead tried to bribe the inspector with BD20 to clear it anyway.
The man, a cold store worker, told police that the inspector asked for BD20, which he thought was the inspection charge. He said he at first said he only had BD5, but when the inspector insisted, he gave him BD20.
But the inspector said the man followed him into his office and offered him money after he told him to come back when he had fixed the car. "He gave me BD5 and I did not reply to him," said the inspector. "Then he gave me BD10 and I told him BD20 and I would sign the paper. He put BD20 in my pocket and I immediately informed my superiors."
Hold on here, if a Vehicle Inspector asks for BD20 to sign the paper, isn't that asking for a bribe, ... surely there is an admission of guilt here by the Vehicle Inspector! If accurately reported, this is a good example of the way the legal system operates in Bahrain. Cynics might say that if the Vehicle Inspector was an ex-pat, and the motorist Bahraini, the outcome would be very different.
I guess this also shows how difficult it is to stamp out corruption when you have one person's word against another's.
4 comments:
Motorist offers a bribe, inspector requests a higher bribe, motorist complies, inspector reports. I don't understand how the inspector was not found to be out of order at all either. Jailed for a year? golly, the courts must be tough over there.
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