It may be recalled that the The Goan had exposed the case of alleged harassment, extortion, and accepting bribes through GPay by the homeguard at wine shop at Colva. The question is whether the homeguard is authorized to ask violators to pay fine with GPay or whether this fine amount comes into the State treasury or whether there’s revenue leakage causing loss to the State exchequer. There is incriminating evidence that Google Pay has become the standard or even official mode of payment of bribes to the cops. Such type of innovative ways to receive underhand fine money even via Google Pay has become the norm. The question also rises over how a wine store has been authorized to collect challan payments via G-Pay. This shows that traffic enforcement is not equipped with POS machine. It points out the failed mechanism by the competent authorities. Corruption is a way of life for traffic department but it is on the roads that people end up paying bribes most often, as everything is loaded in favour of traffic police.
