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The Telangana High Court issued contempt notices to senior state officials after Hyderabad traffic police allegedly violated judicial directions by seizing a lawyer’s vehicle over pending e-challans, despite earlier orders prohibiting coercive measures.

The Abid Road police registered a case against Shaik Mustafa for allegedly altering his scooter’s registration number to evade traffic challans. Following a complaint, police tracked Mustafa’s scooter through surveillance cameras and booked him.

BRS MLC Dasoju Sravan criticised the Telangana government’s approach to collecting pending traffic challans, citing the High Court’s recent orders against coercive recovery methods. He warned that such measures would not withstand judicial scrutiny and would face public resistance.

The Telangana High Court has ruled that police cannot stop vehicles or compel motorists to pay pending traffic challans on the spot. Justice NV Shravan Kumar directed that recovery of fines must follow due process of law, including court notices and adjudication.

BRS MLC Dasoju Sravan criticised Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s proposal to auto-debit traffic challans directly from vehicle owners’ bank accounts, calling it unconstitutional and a violation of citizens’ fundamental rights.

Hyderabad citizens and commentators criticized CM A Revanth Reddy’s proposal to auto-debit traffic challan fines from bank accounts, citing legal, constitutional, and ethical concerns. Critics highlighted contradictions with past Congress promises of waivers and questioned the fairness of automatic deductions without due process

Telangana CM A Revanth Reddy suggested an auto debit system for traffic challans, linking payments to vehicle owners’ bank accounts. He opposed discounts on challans and urged strict action against minors driving and drunk driving, stressing stronger traffic law reforms

Telangana CM A Revanth Reddy proposed an auto debit system for traffic challans, linking payments to vehicle owners’ bank accounts. He opposed discounts on challans and urged strict action against minors driving and drunk driving, stressing road safety reforms

“Any claim of discount on pending traffic e-challans is fake, mischievous and fraught with fraudulent motive. The citizens are requested not to believe or act upon any such fake and misleading claim/information,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (traffic), P Vishwa Prasad

A few accidents were reported where only due to wrong-side driving people lost their lives, say police

According to officials, a total of 1.67 crore pending traffic challans were cleared by citizens in Telangana and nearly Rs150 crore amount towards penalty was collected, thus clearing 46.36 per cent of pending challans.

The last date for payments of challans with discounts was already extended once till January 31 earlier on January 10.

The Hyderabad traffic police stated that the date was extended till the month end in view of huge rush and encouraging response from the public

Hyderabad Traffic Police booked 525 criminal cases against the violators.

In the last five years, the Telangana State Police officers across the state have cleared a total of 11,601 pending traffic challans worth Rs.28.85 lakh.

Hyderabad: A motorist was slapped by a Traffic Inspector, allegedly after an argument broke out between them over the former not clearing his pending traffic challan in Kukatpally on Thursday. The motorist, Om Prakash Reddy, alleged that he was slapped and abused even as he requested the traffic cop to give sometime to clear the […]

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad traffic police launched a special drive to collect pending traffic challans from the doorsteps of motorists who failed to clear them during the ‘discount offer’ scheme. The traffic police has prepared a list of the vehicle owners who have huge challan amount pending against them for different traffic violations. “A team of […]

Hyderabad: Home Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali on Wednesday announced extension of date for clearing pending traffic challans at discount for 15 more days, bringing major relief for motorists to clear their pending challans. The motorists can pay the challan till April 14 as against earlier date of March 31. The decision to extend the date […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad Traffic Joint Commissioner of Police AV Ranganath on Friday said that though the mega discount offer to clear pending traffic challans was receiving good response, there was no thought to extend it further after March 31. At a meeting here, issues including filing chargesheet on traffic violation cases in time apart from chargesheet […]

Hyderabad: The Police Department on Tuesday collected a whopping Rs 5.5 crore from traffic challans, the first day of the one-time discount initiative. The amount was realised after clearing over 5 lakh challans through the integrated e-challan system. Meanwhile, Home Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali on Tuesday advised people to avail the discount offered on pending […]