Road Tax "on the road"

Today we(myself and my wife, Murali and Srini) were stopped by the RTO guys in Bannerghata road as we were travelling by Murali's Zen. They verified the docs and asked for the Road Tax(karnataka road tax), when we pay road tax in chennai... do we really need to pay road tax wherever we take our car... only god can answer these doubts... ok those things apart... we have accepted that murali haven't paid the road tax yet. Our RTO guy did refer some docs and said that we need to pay around 13K as the life time road tax and he wanted us to pay there itself, "on the road". When we said we don't have that much money.. and so we can pay later... they asked us to pay 10K or 5K then to pay the rest later within the week, the joke is they even asked us to leave some mobile set to them and pay the road tax and take the car :) then finally murali got frustrated and called his mama to get legal advice :). he asked him to pay the road tax and take the receipt, so he decided to pay the sum(13K on the road itself) and take the receipt... the drama ended after receiving the receipt from the RTO fellows after paying the whole sum.

I am not sure these things can happen only in India!!

The funda is murali and myself too wanted to go to a RTO to pay these road tax stuff... but murali thought this as a added feature of paying road tax "on the road" at a single go... but the story didn't end there... he has to go to RTO office and collect another receipt... hahaha...

but overall its a good experience... we had here in bangalore.