More than one year after the ‘postal challan’ was launched by the traffic police, the Gurugram Police has sent 5,875 postal challans to traffic violators with the help of residents across the city. According to the data, around 478 violators have deposited fine while 1,034 challans were produced before the court.
“The violators who are not taking these summons seriously and we will petition the court to issue warrants against these repeat offenders,” Deputy Commissioner of police (DCP) Traffic, Deepak Gahlawat, said.
“A large number of offenders have not heeded to their warnings despite being given 60 days to pay up. “They have to submit the penalty, failing which there is a norm for three-months imprisonment and Rs 1,000 as a penalty,” Gahlawat said.
As per data revealed by the traffic police, 5875 photo-challans were issue against violators for driving without proper number plate, driving without a helmet, traffic signal jump, driving without seatbelts and wrong U-turn etc. A few challans were issued for wrong parking as well, the DCP said.
“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,” the DCP, said.
“We are getting full support of the city residents who are filing their complaint about traffic violation across the district. They are sending photographs and short video clips with details such as vehicle numbers, place, date and time of the violation of the Whatsapp number.
“The project, aimed to leverage technology as an enabler to curb traffic disruption in the city, is going to be implemented on all major roads including National and state highways.
“We have identified the locations where traffic violations are most rampant. We will take photographs and videography of traffic violators and will issue challan against the traffic offenders,” he added.