The Mumbai traffic police has sent notices to over 10,000 motorists, whose pending e-challans exceed INR 20,000, to pay their fines within 15 days or bear the consequences.
There are at least 10,656 violators who have several e-challans, with accumulated fines exceeding ₹20,000, pending against them.
In one week, the traffic police sent 2,745 notices to violators to clear their dues or else chargesheets would be submitted against them in the metropolitan magistrate courts concerned with relevant charges so that they could be tried for the charges.
Joint commissioner Pravin Padwal said that the notices have already started to help them in the recovery. The effect of notices has turned out to be positive. In seven days, the motorists have paid ₹2.27 crore.
According to the traffic police data till July 2023, around 2.47 crore total e-challans were issued by the police from January 2016, and the fines payable against them come to a total of ₹898.48 crore. Of these, motorists have cleared 1.19 crore challans by paying ₹386.5 crore in fines and the rest are outstanding.
Officers said that they have managed to collect just 51 per cent of e-challans issued by traffic cops over the last six years.
Last year, traffic police officials had begun sending pre-litigation notices to motorists, to pay the fine or be present in the Lok Adalat. After this the police succeeded in recovering ₹420 crore e-challan.
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