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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Soon, pay your traffic challan online -Pradeep Thakur

Soon, pay your traffic challan online -Pradeep Thakur

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published Published on Apr 16, 2013   modified Modified on Apr 16, 2013
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: Traffic challans will very soon be paid online across the country and will not constitute a court case. The government has written to all states to make online payment of traffic challans mandatory and the ministry of road transport and highways is likely to issue a directive to take challan cases out of the domain of courts.

After the intervention of the Prime Minister's Office, the law ministry asked the road transport ministry to issue a directive to all states to make it mandatory for traffic challan payments online and not subject them to court cases.

Delhi was given two deadlines - the first expired on January 1 this year and the second on March 31. But the state has failed to fully implement it. It has been made mandatory in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Chandigarh, Jalandhar and Shimla.

Sources in the law ministry said the initiative was taken to bring down court cases after then Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia had written to the PM in 2010 seeking his intervention to bring down pendency of cases, most of which were of traffic challans and those pertaining to cheque bounce.

Total pending cases across courts stands at 3.20 crore. Many of them are of heinous crimes and they suffer because of pendency of traffic challans and such sundry cases. A senior law ministry official said by taking traffic violation cases out of the court's domain, the pendency could come down by at least one-third.

The issue was discussed during the recently-concluded chief justices and chief ministers meeting in the Capital where some chief justices of high courts pointed out that as per the Motor Vehicles Act, no challan could be pending beyond five years but they were still crowding several courts across the country and constituted a majority of the cases.

A suggestion was made to ask state governments to withdraw all traffic challan cases pending for more than five years.

"Why should the judiciary look into challan cases," a chief justice asked and suggested that all such cases be shifted to executive magistrates or retired magistrates be appointed to look into them and pass orders.

The road transport ministry has said it was pursuing the matter with all states and once responses and a status update was available, it would issue guidelines making mandatory for all traffic challans to be paid online.


The Times of India, 16 April, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Soon-pay-your-traffic-challan-online/articleshow/19569943.cms


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