Indian Bureaucracy - What the???

A friend of mine from iitd had sent me a couple of HDDs of capacity 820 GB through a well reputed courier agency in the south some 2 weeks back. When I enquired a week back, came to know that it was seized by the Sales tax team as it didn't have a document saying it's for personal use and not for commercial purpose and I was supposed to pay some 5000 bugs as sales tax. Doing some search on the net found that all we needed was a sound proof to claim its genuinely for personal use and we got the proof ready in no time. The particular person in charge(Call him X or whatever) of the seize gave us all possible hints to bribe him some 2000 bugs and get it done. Not falling for that made me and my friend roam the city for 2 days in the hot sun and we got it done after a lot of paper work (really a lot by any standards!!) and it also meant that no productive work for 2 days. But the look on X's face when he issued the drives said it all and we felt relieved, just relieved. Probably its difficult to identify such people who corrupt the system and we weren't too happy to let him off.

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.

PS: btw, my system's total HDD capacity is now 900 GB :) Don't ask what I am going to do with it.