After the complaints of the people receiving ‘erroneous challans’, Transport Minister Padmanabha Behera on Friday said the money would be refunded in such cases.
“Those who are violating traffic rules and escaping without paying penalties will be identified through CCTV cameras installed at various traffic junctions. Based on the CCTV camera footage, challans will be issued against the violators,” Behera said.
Asked about some instances where challans have been wrongly issued to motorists, Behera said, “It should not happen. If there is any such instance of mistakes, money will certainly be refunded to the people,” the Minister said.
In some examples of wrong challans, a car owner in Cuttack received a challan for not wearing ‘helmet’. In another case, another car owner of the Silver City received a challan for multiple traffic rule violations at Vani Vihar Square in Bhubaneswar in August. But he alleged that he was in Cuttack and didn’t go to Bhubaneswar on that day.