(a) Go up to the counter and ask the clerk to give back the money which he has illegally taken.

Question

While travelling in a Delhi-registered commercial taxi from Delhi to an adjacent city (another State), your taxi driver informs you that as he has no permit for running the taxi in that city, he will stop at its Transport Office and pay the prescribed fee of ` forty for a day. While paying the fee at the counter you find that the transport clerk is taking an extra fifty rupees for which no receipt is being given. You are in a hurry for your meeting. In such circumstances, what would you do? 

(a) Go up to the counter and ask the clerk to give back the money which he has illegally taken. 

(b) Do not interfere at all as this is a matter between the taxi driver and the tax authorities. 

(c) Take note of the incident and subsequently report the matter to the concerned authorities. 

(d) Treat it as a normal affair and simply forget about it.

Answer 1

(c) One should not let go the wrong doer because that will set a wrong precedence. So if the spur of the moment is not rife to act, one must restrain and make a mental note instead. Complaint can be lodged later but an urgent meeting can be ignored or spoilt just because of some unscrupulous people. They can be taken to task later.