Supreme Court suggests ways to recover unpaid traffic challans

way2barak, September 29: Supreme Court Monday asked govt to adopt an innovative approach to make traffic law violaters pay fines and suggested challans should be linked with electricity bill to force them to pay the penalty or face power disconnection.

A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Justice K V Viswanathan also suggested that authorities should take steps for blacklisting vehicles with unpaid challans and also block ownership transfers.

“It is not just sufficient to keep issuing e-challans. Police may issue thousands and lakhs of such e-challans. Question is recovery of fines as sought to be imposed by way of the e-challans…If people are not paying traffic challans, add it to their electricity dues bill. They’ll have to pay electricity bills, otherwise the power line will be disconnected. Work it out. In this country, you have to find a way out,” the bench said.