An MNC executive was assaulted at the registrar’s office in Noida when he tried to expose corruption at the office.

The victim Gaurav Bakshi, who is the India representative of a USA based multinational company Vitamix Corporation in his FIR filed with sector 24 police station at Noida has made the deputy registrar R K Gautam and a clerk in his office accused in the case.

He was married in July this year and got his marriage registered last month. However, later, he realized that a part of the Rs 25,000 fee that he paid for it formed the bribe amount.

To press for retrieving the same, he went to the registrar’s office on Friday equipped with a digital camera to record evidence as he apprehended the officials would not cooperate.

Bakshi who had a swollen face and a torn shirt allegedly due to the assault told Governance Now he was secretly recording the entire conversation in which one of the officials even accepted that the part of the fee was the bribe amount.

He said on confronting the deputy registrar with this evidence, he was first threatened and later while coming out of the premises was waylaid by a few men who beat him and snatched the camera. These men, one of whom allegedly claimed to be the secretary of a bar association reportedly also assaulted Bakshi’s father who was accompanying his son.

His father, B S Bakshi who is a senior citizen and a retired wing commander of the Indian Air Force said, “It was on the behest of R K Gautam that the goons attacked them.”

The station house officer of the sector 24 police station Girish Jayant confirmed that an FIR in this regard has been registered. Asked  if the police will look into the larger issue of corruption in the registrar’s office, the SHO said the matter would be investigated. He also assured that the police would do all it could to recover Bakshi’s camera and other articles as soon as possible.