@ananyashasau For my first passport in 1983, I offered cup of tea to the constable who came for address verification to my home. (If you call it bribe)
I have not paid any bribe for any of the subsequent renewals till date.
@SHEKARSUSHEEL Till independence there you to be a permit in form of a badge to own and ride a cycle.
Later few Municipal Corporations continued it till almost 1967