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    <description>What the officer may lawfully do, what a real challan looks like, and how to end a roadside stop without paying.</description>
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    <description>The official online route, the real fees, and what to do when the RTO file stalls.</description>
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    <description>Stamp duty and registration fees are published rates. Everything above them is not a fee.</description>
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    <description>A cheap statutory document that is often held up until money changes hands — the deadlines and the escalation route.</description>
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    <description>Published charges, a fixed timeline, and in many states compensation when the utility is late.</description>
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    <description>What is genuinely free, who to escalate to inside the hospital, and how to report without risking care.</description>
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    <description>Automatic redaction, human review, publication as an anonymised record — and what is deliberately impossible.</description>
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    <description>What this dataset can and cannot tell you — and how to cite it without overclaiming.</description>
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    <title>How to refuse a bribe at a government office — and still get your work done</title>
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    <description>Calm, concrete steps that work more often than people expect — and why a paper trail beats an argument.</description>
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    <title>Your rights when an official demands a bribe in India</title>
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    <description>The laws that are on your side, the citizen’s charter you can invoke, and where to complain.</description>
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    <description>A one-page Right to Information request often moves a “come back next month” file in days. Here’s the template.</description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>The real cost of refusing: how delay is used as a weapon</title>
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    <description>Refuse a bribe and the price is often not a bigger bill but months of being sent back. Why that matters, and how reporting it helps.</description>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description>No account, no name, no IP address. What we collect, what we never collect, and why the schema is the safeguard.</description>
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