An animal nutritionist shutting his Tamil Nadu warehouse over a ₹3,000 bribe demand isn’t just a one-off incident—it echoes a growing chorus of small business owners alleging deep-rooted corruption in India’s customs and compliance systems.

Dr. Ravi Pachaiyappan, founder of AugiePets, sparked fresh outrage on X after revealing that a ₹3,000 bribe demand to approve a Google Map update for his Krishnagiri warehouse pushed him to shut it down entirely. “Refusing to pay, I just closed the warehouse,” he wrote. Advertisement

His experience mirrors the far more explosive case involving Wintrack Inc, a Chennai-based import firm, which alleged systemic bribery by Chennai Customs—accusations that have now snowballed into a national-level controversy.

Wintrack’s founder, Prawin Ganeshan, claimed

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