More than three-and-a-half month after the 'postal challan' was launched by the traffic police, the Haryana police have sent 25,000 postal challans to traffic violators with the help of residents across the State.
Meanwhile, the Gurugram police have fined 2,412 motorists under the postal challan system and around 128 violators have complied with it by depositing the fine. The traffic police have started sending court summons to these offenders and they will now be called to the court to face charges and pay the penalty.
“The violators are not taking these summons seriously if they will not pay their penalty will urge the court to issue a warrant against those offenders,” Sibash Kabiraj, Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Highways and Joint Commissioner, Gurugram police, said.
However, traffic authorities have ensured that the initiative didn't go waste. “We have given 15 HD cameras to traffic police personnel to capture images of traffic offenders and sent them challan on top propriety if they will commit a mistake on the road they have to face the music” he added.
According to the traffic police, a large number of offenders have not payed any heed to our warning despite being given 60 days to pay up. “They have to submit the penalty, failing which there is a norm for three-month imprisonment and Rs1,000 as a penalty,” a senior traffic police official said.
Across Haryana, the traffic police have issued 60 per cent postal challans since February 4 last and around 16 per cent of the violations booked by police in Gurugram only.
Data revealed that while among the photo-challans (2,412) issued by cops more than 3 months were without a number plate, driving without a helmet, signal jump and some other number of challans for wrong parking.
The initiative was started to give more power to the city residents to help traffic police in catching traffic rules' violators by sending pictures of violators on the WhatsApp number (9999981800) and email id - pcbranch@gmail.com issued by traffic police.