{ "updated": "2026-08-13", "source": "https://trafficchallan.com/", "license": "CC BY 4.0 with attribution to TrafficChallan", "states": [ { "slug": "andhra-pradesh", "name": "Andhra Pradesh", "target_keyword": "ap e challan", "portals": [ { "label": "Parivahan eChallan — check and pay challan (the page AP Police links to)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Parivahan eChallan home — pending transaction check, receipts, grievance", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "AP Police citizen services — e-Challan menu item (opens the Parivahan page)", "url": "https://appolice.gov.in/", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "AP Mee Seva — assisted counters that collect compounding fees", "url": "https://ap.meeseva.gov.in/IMeeSeva2/IMeesevaHome.aspx", "scope": "pay" } ], "check_steps": [ "Open https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan — this is the exact page the AP Police portal (appolice.gov.in) and Prakasam district police link their e-Challan menu to. Andhra Pradesh is NOT on the NextGen portal, so do not use echallan.parivahan.nic.in.", "Pick one of the three radio options above the input box: 'Challan Number', 'Vehicle Number' or 'DL Number'. Selecting one clears whatever you typed in the other two.", "Type the value into the single text box. It auto-uppercases as you type and rejects anything that is not a letter or digit, so enter the registration as AP39XX1234 with no spaces or hyphens (max 20 characters; challan number max 32).", "Enter the 6-character Captcha shown beside the box (there is a refresh icon if it is unreadable), then click 'Get Detail'.", "Read the results table, whose columns are Violator Name, DL/RC Number, Challan No, Transaction ID, State, Department, Challan Date, Amount, Status and Payment Source, plus 'Challan Print' and 'Receipt' actions.", "If the portal asks you to authenticate before showing full details, choose 'By Mobile Number Registered at Vahan' or 'By Aadhaar OTP' (12-digit Aadhaar or 16-digit Virtual Aadhaar ID); a DL number with date of birth also works. Enter the 6-digit OTP and click Verify OTP.", "Watch for the red note 'This challan has been forwarded to Virtual Court ... but still it can be paid here.' Andhra Pradesh has no Virtual Court department onboarded, so for an AP challan this note should not normally appear." ], "pay_steps": [ "Find the challan using the check steps above, then click the 'Pay Now' button on that challan's row in the results table.", "Tick the disclaimer checkbox reading 'I have read the above Disclaimer and agree to proceed further.' before the portal will let you continue.", "Complete OTP verification if prompted — 'By Mobile Number Registered at Vahan', or 'By Aadhaar OTP' using a 12-digit Aadhaar number or a 16-digit Virtual Aadhaar ID.", "You are handed off to the payment gateway. Pay by UPI, net banking, debit card or credit card. Do not refresh or use the browser back button while the gateway is loading.", "Once payment succeeds, use the 'Receipt' action in the results table to download proof, and 'Challan Print' for the challan itself. Keep the Transaction ID.", "If money was debited but the challan still shows unpaid, use 'Check Pending Transaction' from the eChallan home page before paying again, and only then contact the NIC helpdesk on 0120-4925505 or helpdesk-echallan@gov.in.", "To pay offline instead, take the posted challan to a Mee Seva or AP Online centre — Kadapa and Prakasam district police both document compounding-fee collection at these counters, with a 15-day demand period stated on the posted notice." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "mParivahan — the MoRTH/NIC national mobile app (Android and iOS). It carries challan history for a vehicle or licence alongside virtual RC and virtual DL pulled live from the Vahan and Sarathi databases, which MoRTH has notified as legally valid documents.", "No Andhra Pradesh-specific SMS challan service is documented on any official AP police or transport page; use the Parivahan portal or mParivahan rather than any third-party shortcode." ], "court_challan_process": "Andhra Pradesh has no Virtual Court for traffic challans. The department dropdown on vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ was read in full on 12 August 2026 and lists only Assam, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal — neither Andhra Pradesh nor Telangana appears. So an AP challan that cannot be compounded (typically drunk driving under s.185, or a repeat or aggravated offence where the officer books a case rather than a compoundable challan) is filed before the ordinary jurisdictional magistrate's court for the place of the offence, and you must appear or be represented on the summons date rather than settling it on a portal. The Parivahan eChallan page does carry a generic Virtual Court banner reading \"This challan has been forwarded to Virtual Court (https://vcourts.gov.in/), but still it can be paid here. If you choose to pay here, do not pay at Virtual Court. Similarly, If you have paid at Virtual Court, please do not pay here again.\" — but because no AP department is onboarded, that banner should not fire for an Andhra Pradesh challan; if it does, treat it as an anomaly and confirm with the issuing unit before paying twice. The realistic route to a reduced settlement in AP is the National Lok Adalat: the Andhra Pradesh State Legal Services Authority has notified on andhrapradesh.nalsa.gov.in that a National Lok Adalat will be held on 12-09-2026 throughout Andhra Pradesh, and states that \"Litigant public may approach the Legal Services Institution in the nearest court compound for settling their cases through National Lok Adalat.\" A Lok Adalat award has the status of a civil court decree and is final and binding. Pending case status can be tracked through eCourts services, which district police sites such as Kadapa link to directly.", "payment_methods": [ "UPI", "Net banking", "Debit card", "Credit card", "Cash or card at Mee Seva centres", "Cash or card at AP Online centres" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "NIC eChallan helpdesk (email)", "value": "helpdesk-echallan@gov.in" }, { "label": "NIC eChallan helpdesk (phone, 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM)", "value": "0120-4925505" }, { "label": "AP Police DG Control room, state headquarters", "value": "0863-2340471" } ], "quirks": [ "Andhra Pradesh is NOT on the NextGen eChallan portal. The legacy portal's notice board lists AN, AR, AS, BR, CH, CG, DD, GA, HP, HR, JH, JK, KA, LA, MH, ML, MN, MZ, NL, PB, PY, SK, TN, UK, WB, RJ and GJ as the states to use echallan.parivahan.nic.in — Andhra Pradesh is absent, so AP challans remain on the legacy echallan.parivahan.gov.in.", "AP no longer runs its own challan portal. Both historic state URLs are dead: apechallan.org returns a DNS SERVFAIL and echallan.appolice.gov.in has no A record (both re-tested 12-Aug-2026). AP Police's own site now sends the e-Challan menu item out to echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan.", "Stale official page: the Kadapa (YSR) district police Traffic page still links its 'EChallan status' button to the dead apechallan.org. Because that domain no longer resolves, it is also a squatting and phishing risk if anyone re-registers it — a live-looking 'AP e-challan' site on that domain would not be official.", "Andhra Pradesh has no Virtual Court. The vcourts.gov.in department dropdown, read in full on 12-Aug-2026, contains 22 states and UTs and lists neither Andhra Pradesh nor Telangana, so AP court challans go to the ordinary jurisdictional magistrate rather than an online court.", "The AP Transport Department publishes no current fine schedule. Its 'Penalties' page (aptransport.org/html/penalties.html) contains only the sentence 'This page will be updated soon...!', and its G.Os & Circulars page (taxation_notifications.php?id=1) returns HTTP 500. There is no consolidated state-notified post-2019 compounding chart on any AP transport or home department site found.", "Every published AP police fine figure ends in 35 — ₹1,035, ₹2,035, ₹185, ₹335, ₹785, ₹5,035, ₹235 — a uniform ₹35 add-on over the statutory amount. This is consistent with a fixed user or service charge on top of the compounding fee, but no AP notification confirming the ₹35 component could be found, so the composition is inferred, not verified.", "AP's overspeeding compounding rate for light motor vehicles, ₹785 (i.e. ₹750 plus the ₹35 add-on), sits below the ₹1,000 central figure for s.183 under the MV (Amendment) Act 2019. Some official charts show the statutory figure — the e-challan states the payable amount.", "Challans are posted, not always handed over. Prakasam district police state e-challans are sent to violators by post 'with a demand to pay their respective fine at mee-seva/AP online centers or through internet with in 15 days', and that officers book violations with evidence cameras and MPD devices without stopping the vehicle.", "The only AP compounding G.O. still hosted by the transport department is G.O.Ms.No.108 dated 18-08-2011, a scanned PDF that pre-dates the 2019 amendment and whose text layer cannot be extracted. The byte-identical file is also served from the Telangana transport site — a leftover of the 2014 bifurcation — so it should not be read as a current AP schedule.", "The contact e-mail printed on AP Police's own Contact Us page, adg_l@apolice.gov.in, is on a domain that does not resolve; only appolice.gov.in (with the double p) exists. It appears to be a typo, so use the DG Control landline instead.", "No AP-specific SMS challan service is documented anywhere official. The Parivahan portal itself warns: 'Please beware of fraudulent websites and mobile apps impersonating our echallan services... We never request your password, OTP, payment details or sensitive personal information via calls, emails, or messages or links.'", "The Srikakulam district police fine table used for these compounding amounts carries no visible G.O. number or date on the page itself. A keyword search of the state G.O. register at goir.ap.gov.in under the Transport, Roads and Buildings (TRB01) and Home (HOM01) departments did not surface the underlying notification within a bounded search. The amounts are corroborated across multiple district police pages, but the instrument behind them remains unverified." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Which website do I actually use to check and pay an Andhra Pradesh e-challan?", "a": "Use https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan. That is the exact URL the Andhra Pradesh Police portal at appolice.gov.in opens from its e-Challan menu item, and Prakasam district police's 'Pay your E-Challan' button points to the same page. Andhra Pradesh is not one of the 27 states and UTs the legacy portal redirects to the NextGen eChallan site, so AP challans stay on the legacy Parivahan portal." }, { "q": "Is apechallan.org still the official AP e-challan website?", "a": "No. As of 12 August 2026 apechallan.org does not resolve in DNS at all, and neither does the older echallan.appolice.gov.in. Both are dead. This matters because some official pages have not caught up — the Kadapa (YSR) district police Traffic page still links its 'EChallan status' button to apechallan.org — and a great many blogs still recommend it. Since the domain is unregistered or unresolving, anything that later appears on it should be treated as untrusted. Use the Parivahan portal instead." }, { "q": "Does Andhra Pradesh have a Virtual Court for traffic challans?", "a": "No. The department dropdown on vcourts.gov.in was checked on 12 August 2026 and lists 22 states and union territories; Andhra Pradesh is not among them, and neither is Telangana. An AP challan that goes to court is heard by the ordinary jurisdictional magistrate on a summons date. The practical way to get a reduction is a National Lok Adalat — APSLSA has notified one for 12-09-2026 across Andhra Pradesh." }, { "q": "Can I pay an Andhra Pradesh e-challan in cash instead of online?", "a": "Yes. Kadapa district police state that the e-Challan system was launched to 'collect compounding fee from the defaulters through A.P. Online and Mee Seva centers', and Prakasam district police state that e-challans are sent to violators by post 'with a demand to pay their respective fine at mee-seva/AP online centers or through internet with in 15 days'. So a counter payment at a Mee Seva or AP Online centre is an officially documented alternative to paying online." }, { "q": "Why does my AP challan say ₹1,035 when the helmet fine is supposed to be ₹1,000?", "a": "Because AP police fine charts consistently add ₹35 to the statutory figure. The Srikakulam district police schedule shows ₹1,035 for no helmet, ₹2,035 for no insurance, ₹5,035 for driving without a licence, ₹185 and ₹335 for not producing documents, ₹785 for LMV overspeeding and ₹235 per head for overloading — every single figure ends in 35. That pattern is consistent with a fixed user or service charge on top of the compounding amount, but no Andhra Pradesh notification confirming the ₹35 component could be located. Always pay the amount the challan itself states." }, { "q": "Is there an official AP SMS service or app to check challans?", "a": "There is no Andhra Pradesh state SMS challan service documented on any official AP page. The only officially documented app route is mParivahan, the MoRTH and NIC national app, which carries challan history alongside virtual RC and DL pulled from the Vahan and Sarathi databases. Anything advertising an AP-specific challan SMS shortcode should be treated with suspicion — the Parivahan portal itself warns to 'beware of fraudulent websites and mobile apps impersonating our echallan services'." } ], "fine_overrides": { "dangerous-driving-red-light": { "amount_text": "₹1,035 light motor vehicle, ₹2,035 heavy vehicle for dangerous driving under s.184. AP's chart illustrates s.184 only with handheld-device use and does not list signal jumping separately.", "source": "https://srikakulampolice.ap.gov.in/Traffic%20fines.html" }, "driving-without-helmet": { "amount_text": "₹1,035 for riding a motorcycle without protective headgear (s.194D) — AP police charts show ₹1,035 as payable, ₹35 above the ₹1,000 statutory figure.", "source": "https://srikakulampolice.ap.gov.in/Traffic%20fines.html" }, "driving-without-insurance": { "amount_text": "₹2,035 for driving without an insurance certificate (s.196) — ₹35 above the ₹2,000 statutory figure.", "source": "https://srikakulampolice.ap.gov.in/Traffic%20fines.html" }, "driving-without-licence": { "amount_text": "₹5,035 for driving in contravention of s.3/4 under s.181, which AP groups together with underage driving — ₹35 above the ₹5,000 statutory figure.", "source": "https://srikakulampolice.ap.gov.in/Traffic%20fines.html" }, "mobile-phone-while-driving": { "amount_text": "₹1,035 light motor vehicle, ₹2,035 heavy vehicle — AP compounds handheld phone use under s.184 dangerous driving, far below the ₹5,000 often quoted for s.184.", "source": "https://srikakulampolice.ap.gov.in/Traffic%20fines.html" }, "overspeeding": { "amount_text": "₹785 for a light motor vehicle and ₹2,035 for a heavy vehicle (s.183). The LMV rate sits below the ₹1,000 central figure for the same offence.", "source": "https://srikakulampolice.ap.gov.in/Traffic%20fines.html" } }, "sources": [ "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/", "https://appolice.gov.in/", "https://appolice.gov.in/main-FCESBURP.js", "https://prakasampolice.ap.gov.in/CommandControl.html", "https://kadapapolice.ap.gov.in/Traffic.html", "https://srikakulampolice.ap.gov.in/Traffic%20fines.html", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "https://andhrapradesh.nalsa.gov.in/", "https://www.aptransport.org/html/penalties.html", "https://aptransport.org/html/taxation_notifications.php?id=1", "https://www.aptransport.org/pdf_uploads/2011TRB-MS1081314363786.PDF", "https://ap.meeseva.gov.in/IMeeSeva2/IMeesevaHome.aspx", "https://goir.ap.gov.in/" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" }, { "slug": "delhi", "name": "Delhi", "target_keyword": "traffic challan in delhi", "portals": [ { "label": "MoRTH e-challan portal (Delhi challans) — challan details", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Delhi Traffic Police — Notice Branch, pending notices", "url": "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/notice/pay-notice/", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Delhi Traffic Police — update mobile number for challans in Virtual Court", "url": "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/echallan/index/update-mobile", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "Virtual Courts — Delhi (Traffic Department / Notice Department)", "url": "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "scope": "both" } ], "check_steps": [ "Open the MoRTH e-challan portal at https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan. Delhi is not on the newer NextGen portal — the national site's own note routes 27 other states and UTs (AN, AR, AS, BR, CH, CG, DD, GA, HP, HR, JH, JK, KA, LA, MH, ML, MN, MZ, NL, PB, PY, SK, TN, UK, WB, RJ, GJ) to echallan.parivahan.nic.in, and Delhi is not in that list.", "In the 'Challan Details' box pick one of the three tabs — Challan Number, Vehicle Number or DL Number — and type the number exactly as issued (vehicle numbers without spaces or dashes).", "Click 'Get Detail'. The table lists Violator Name, DL/RC Number, Challan No, State, Department (Traffic or Transport), Challan Date, Amount, Status and Payment Source, with links for Challan Print and Receipt.", "For a camera-generated Delhi Traffic Police notice, search separately at https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/notice/pay-notice/ by Vehicle Number or Notice Number and click 'Search Details' — notices sit in the Notice Branch system, not in the challan list.", "If the challan has been forwarded to court, look it up at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ by selecting Delhi(Traffic Department) or Delhi(Notice Department) and searching by mobile number, CNR number, party name or challan/vehicle number." ], "pay_steps": [ "Find the challan on https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan and click 'Pay Now' in that row.", "Complete the identity check the portal asks for: an OTP to the mobile number registered on Vahan, or Aadhaar OTP, or (for a DL-based challan) driving licence number with date of birth and mobile.", "If the challan has already gone to court the portal shows a disclaimer — 'This challan has been forwarded to Virtual Court (https://vcourts.gov.in/), but still it can be paid here' — tick the box to proceed, and do not pay the same challan again on vcourts.gov.in.", "Pay by debit card, credit card, net banking or UPI, then download the receipt straight away; the portal also has a 'Payment Verify' action and a pending-transaction check if money is debited but the challan stays open.", "To settle a Notice Branch notice offline instead: pay cash to any Delhi Traffic Police prosecuting officer carrying an e-challan machine, or send an account-payee cheque, demand draft or pay order drawn in favour of DCP/TRAFFIC(HQs) to Delhi Traffic Police Headquarters, Dev Prakash Shastri Marg, Pusa, New Delhi-110012, with the notice number written on the reverse.", "To pay a court challan through Virtual Courts, select the Delhi department, search your case, click 'View', verify by OTP (or by engine and chassis number if the mobile number on the challan is wrong), choose 'Pay Fine' and pay by card, net banking or UPI." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "mParivahan, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways citizen app, listed on https://parivahan.gov.in/ under Other Products & Services with the line 'The wallet weight of documents brought to half', and reachable at https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/.", "Challan and notice SMS go to the mobile number held against the vehicle; if it is wrong or missing, correct it at https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/echallan/index/update-mobile before trying to pay a challan that is in Virtual Court.", "Delhi Traffic Police WhatsApp number 8750871493, published in the header of https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/.", "Delhi traffic helpline 1095 or 25844444, printed on Delhi Traffic Police notices and shown on the Delhi e-challan update-mobile page." ], "court_challan_process": "Delhi runs two tracks and they behave very differently. Compoundable offences carry a fixed amount in the Delhi Traffic Police 'Traffic Offences and Penalties' schedule, and the force's own FAQ gives the driver two options when stopped: pay up, meaning pay the compounding amount against a receipt, or contest, meaning surrender a document such as the driving licence against a challan receipt and attend court on the date given, where you are either acquitted or fined. Non-compoundable offences never get an on-the-spot amount at all: the schedule marks jumping a red light, violating a stop sign, driving dangerously, wrong overtaking, driving against the authorised flow of traffic and drunken driving as '*Court challan', with the footnote that the final amount is subject to the discretion of the Hon'ble court. Those cases are heard by the Delhi Virtual Courts on https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/, which carries two Delhi entries — Delhi(Traffic Department) and Delhi(Notice Department). The flow there is: select the department, search by mobile number, CNR number, party name or challan/vehicle number, click 'View' to see the detailed challan, verify by OTP (or by engine and chassis number where the mobile number on the challan is wrong), and then either pay the fine through the ePay gateway or select 'I wish to contest the case', after which the acknowledgement names the physical court and the date assigned. A summons can be viewed only after payment is initiated or contest is requested. Camera detections follow a third path, and Delhi Traffic Police has published the exact timeline for it. Its 'General Instructions in r/o Red Light and Over speed Violation Detection Cameras installed in Delhi' says that all red light violation notices and challans are sent to the Virtual Court within 15 days and are compounded there rather than on the Delhi Police website, while all overspeed, stop-line and wrong-side notices and challans remain on the Delhi Traffic Police website for 60 days, during which the violator may compound the amount online; after those 60 days they too are sent to the Virtual Court, and the violator then pays there on receipt of an SMS from the Virtual Court. If a notice or challan is not compounded in the Virtual Court within 60 days, it is sent to the regular court for legal proceedings. Separately, a Notice Branch notice is issued under Section 133 of the Motor Vehicles Act, which obliges the owner of a vehicle whose driver is accused of an offence to give, on the demand of an authorised police officer, the name and address of and the licence held by the driver. Section 133 itself fixes no time limit — the period for responding is the one stated on the notice you receive — and failure to comply with Section 133 is punishable under Section 187 with imprisonment up to six months, or a fine of ₹5,000, or both.", "payment_methods": [ "Debit card", "Credit card", "Net banking", "UPI", "Cash to a Delhi Traffic Police prosecuting officer carrying an e-challan machine", "Account-payee cheque, demand draft or pay order in favour of DCP/TRAFFIC(HQs)" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "Delhi traffic helpline", "value": "1095 or 25844444" }, { "label": "Delhi Traffic Police WhatsApp", "value": "8750871493" }, { "label": "Delhi Traffic Police email", "value": "info.traffic@delhipolice.gov.in" }, { "label": "Notice Branch", "value": "I/C Notice Branch, Office of DCP (HQ), Delhi Traffic Police Headquarters, Dev Prakash Shastri Marg, Pusa, New Delhi-110012 — tinbt-dtp@nic.in" }, { "label": "National e-challan helpdesk", "value": "0120-4925505, 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM — helpdesk-echallan@gov.in" }, { "label": "Women helpline", "value": "1091" } ], "quirks": [ "Delhi stayed on the legacy national portal. echallan.parivahan.gov.in carries a note sending 27 other states and UTs, including Maharashtra, to the NextGen portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in — Delhi and Telangana are not in that list.", "Delhi issues two different instruments. An e-challan is raised against the driver; a Notice under Section 133 MV Act is raised against the registered owner and is searched on a different page (traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/notice/pay-notice/). Section 133 only obliges the owner to give the driver's name, address and licence details on demand — it fixes no time period, so the deadline is whatever the notice itself states.", "Red light and overspeed camera detections are not treated alike. Delhi Traffic Police's published RLVD instructions send red light violations to the Virtual Court within 15 days, so they never become payable on the police website at all, while overspeed, stop-line and wrong-side detections stay payable there for 60 days first.", "The published RLVD instructions still name the old delhitrafficpolice.nic.in domain. The live site is traffic.delhipolice.gov.in — the process described is current, the domain in the text is not.", "The same Delhi challan can show up both on echallan.parivahan.gov.in and on vcourts.gov.in. The national portal explicitly warns you to pay in one place only, because it does not stop you paying twice.", "Virtual Courts lists Delhi twice — Delhi(Traffic Department) and Delhi(Notice Department). Pick the wrong one and the case simply will not be found.", "Several common Delhi offences have no online amount at all. Jumping a red light, stop-sign violation, dangerous driving, wrong overtaking, driving against the flow of traffic, plying over-age diesel/petrol vehicles, offences relating to juveniles and drunken driving are all marked '*Court challan' on the official schedule.", "If the mobile number on the challan is wrong you can still act: Virtual Courts accepts verification by engine and chassis number instead of OTP, and Delhi Traffic Police has a dedicated 'update mobile number (for non-consumed challan in virtual court)' page." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Can I pay a Delhi challan that has already gone to the Virtual Court?", "a": "Yes. The MoRTH portal shows a disclaimer saying the challan has been forwarded to Virtual Court but can still be paid there, and asks you to tick a box before proceeding. The one rule is not to pay it in both places — if you have already paid on vcourts.gov.in, do not pay again on the e-challan portal, and vice versa." }, { "q": "How long does a Delhi camera notice stay payable before it goes to court?", "a": "It depends on the violation, and Delhi Traffic Police publishes the split. Under its 'General Instructions in r/o Red Light and Over speed Violation Detection Cameras installed in Delhi', red light violation notices and challans are sent to the Virtual Court within 15 days and are compounded there, not on the Delhi Police website. Overspeed, stop-line and wrong-side notices and challans stay on the Delhi Traffic Police website for 60 days and can be compounded online during that window; after 60 days they also move to the Virtual Court, where you pay on receipt of an SMS. If a notice is still not compounded in the Virtual Court within 60 days, it is sent to the regular court for legal proceedings. Note that a Notice Branch notice under Section 133 is a different thing — Section 133 sets no statutory period, so go by the date printed on your notice." }, { "q": "Why does my Delhi challan say 'Court challan' with no amount?", "a": "Because the offence is not compoundable. The Delhi Traffic Police schedule marks offences such as jumping a red light, violating a stop sign, driving dangerously and drunken driving as '*Court challan', with the footnote that the final amount is subject to the discretion of the Hon'ble court. There is no on-the-spot figure to pay; the case is decided by the court, in Delhi's case usually the Virtual Court." }, { "q": "What if I want to contest a Delhi challan instead of paying?", "a": "Delhi Traffic Police's own FAQ describes the on-road choice as: pay the compounding amount against a receipt, or contest by surrendering a document such as your driving licence against a challan receipt and attending court on the date given, where you are either acquitted or fined. For a case already on Virtual Courts, open it, click 'View', select 'I wish to contest the case', verify by OTP, and submit — the acknowledgement then names the physical court and the date assigned." }, { "q": "The mobile number on my challan is not mine. How do I still pay or contest?", "a": "Two routes exist. On Virtual Courts you can verify using the vehicle's engine and chassis number instead of an OTP; the system checks them against RTO data. Separately, Delhi Traffic Police runs an 'update mobile number (for non-consumed challan in virtual court)' page where you search by challan or vehicle number and register a new mobile number after confirming the vehicle's chassis and engine number." } ], "fine_overrides": { "overspeeding": { "amount_text": "₹2,000 for a light motor vehicle and ₹4,000 for a medium or heavy transport vehicle, the same for first and subsequent offences (112.1/183(1) MVA) — Delhi compounds at the top of the statutory band", "source": "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/traffic-offences" }, "driving-without-puc": { "amount_text": "₹10,000 for the first and any subsequent offence (115 CMVR / 190(2) MVA) — Delhi compounds at the statutory ceiling", "source": "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/traffic-offences" }, "driving-without-rc": { "amount_text": "₹5,000 for the first offence and ₹10,000 for a subsequent offence, listed as 'RC Violation — 39/192 MVA'; the same amounts apply to a defective, fancy or missing number plate under 50, 51 CMVR / 39 / 192 MVA", "source": "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/traffic-offences" }, "mobile-phone-while-driving": { "amount_text": "₹5,000 for the first offence and ₹10,000 for a subsequent offence, listed as 'Use of Hand-Held Communication Devices While Driving — 184 M.V.A'", "source": "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/traffic-offences" }, "dangerous-driving-red-light": { "amount_text": "Court challan — Delhi notifies no compounding amount for 'Jumping Red Light', 'Violation of Stop Sign', 'Driving Dangerously' or 'Driving against the authorized flow of traffic' under 184 MVA; the schedule's footnote says the final amount is subject to the discretion of the Hon'ble court", "source": "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/traffic-offences" }, "drunk-driving": { "amount_text": "Court challan — Delhi notifies no compounding amount for 'Drunken Driving' under 185 MVA; the final amount is subject to the discretion of the Hon'ble court", "source": "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/traffic-offences" } }, "sources": [ "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/traffic-offences", "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/faq", "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/sites/default/files/uploads/2020/General_Instructions_RLVD.pdf", "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/notice/pay-notice/", "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/echallan/index/update-mobile", "https://traffic.delhipolice.gov.in/", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/help.php", "https://parivahan.gov.in/", "https://www.indiacode.nic.in/show-data?actid=AC_CEN_30_42_00009_198859_1517807326286§ionId=28477§ionno=200&orderno=231", "https://www.indiacode.nic.in/show-data?actid=AC_CEN_30_42_00009_198859_1517807326286§ionId=28406§ionno=133&orderno=143", "https://www.indiacode.nic.in/show-data?actid=AC_CEN_30_42_00009_198859_1517807326286§ionId=28463§ionno=187&orderno=207" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" }, { "slug": "gujarat", "name": "Gujarat", "target_keyword": "gujarat e challan", "portals": [ { "label": "NextGen eChallan (MoRTH) — citizen services, the portal Gujarat now runs on", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "eChallan Parivahan (legacy MoRTH) — Challan Details / accused challan", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Gujarat Police eChallan Online Payment System (legacy SAS-Gujarat) — challans dated before 13/06/2023 only", "url": "https://echallanpayment.gujarat.gov.in/sasguj/AccusedChallan/NewAccusedChallan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Virtual Courts (eCommittee, Supreme Court of India) — Gujarat Traffic & Transport Department benches", "url": "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Commissionerate of Transport, Gujarat — official Penalty Structure (state compounding amounts)", "url": "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "Gujarat Police eChallan portal — Contact Us (district NETRAM centres + designated police stations for cash payment)", "url": "https://echallanpayment.gujarat.gov.in/sasguj/AccusedChallan/ContactUS", "scope": "pay" } ], "check_steps": [ "Open the NextGen eChallan portal at https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services. Gujarat has migrated here: the notice board on the older echallan.parivahan.gov.in explicitly lists GJ among the states whose challans must be checked and paid on the NextGen portal.", "Choose the 'Check Pending Challan Status' tile. Selecting it narrows the search-type selector to exactly three options — Challan Number, Vehicle Number and DL Number (the Mobile Number and NBT Notice options disappear for this service).", "Enter the value for the type you picked. A DL search additionally asks for Date of Birth, and a vehicle search can ask for Registration Date or Challan Date. Then fill the captcha.", "Verify yourself in the OTP modal titled 'Choose Option To Verify'. You can use either 'Vahan Registered Mobile No' or 'By Aadhaar OTP' — the latter accepts a 12-digit Aadhaar number or a 16-digit Virtual Aadhaar ID and requires ticking 'I hereby accept the Aadhaar authentication terms'. Enter the 6-digit OTP.", "Read the results table: Violator Name, DL/RC Number, Challan Number, Transaction Number, State, Challan Date, Amount and Status, plus Challan Print and Receipt links. A status of 'Disposed' means the challan is already settled.", "For an older challan, use the legacy Gujarat Police portal at https://echallanpayment.gujarat.gov.in/sasguj/AccusedChallan/NewAccusedChallan — enter the vehicle registration number (format hint on the page is 'Eg. AB12CD3456') plus the captcha and press SUBMIT. That site now carries a bilingual notice that challans dated 13/06/2023 or later must be handled on the Parivahan portal instead.", "To see whether a challan has gone to court rather than remaining payable, open the 'Sent To Court' status view from the challan row — it reports Sent To Court On, Court Name, Court Address, Court Number, CL Number and the amount." ], "pay_steps": [ "From the NextGen results table, use the 'Pay Challan' service or the payment control on the challan row. Gujarat has its own dedicated payment routes on the portal — gj-payment for Traffic Department challans and gj-payment-transport for Transport Department challans.", "If the challan has already been forwarded to a Virtual Court, a disclaimer modal appears first: 'This challan has been forwarded to Virtual Court (https://vcourts.gov.in/), but still it can be paid here. If you choose to pay here, do not pay at Virtual Court. Similarly, if you have paid at Virtual Court, please do not pay here again.' Tick the acknowledgement to proceed.", "Complete the mobile/Aadhaar OTP verification, then pay by debit card, credit card, internet banking or UPI — these are the four methods printed on the Gujarat e-challan itself.", "Alternatively pay from a UPI or banking app, a route printed on every Gujarat challan: open Bills & Recharge / Recharge & Bills / Bill Payment, tap Traffic challan / eChallan, select 'Gujarat E-Challan' or 'State Traffic Branch Gujarat', enter the vehicle number and confirm to pay.", "Download proof from the 'Download Payment Receipt' tile, and keep the challan print from 'Download Challan Print'. If money left your account but the challan still shows pending, use 'Check Pending Transaction' to reconcile before paying a second time.", "To pay in cash, visit one of the designated police stations listed on the Gujarat Police portal's Contact Us page (each district lists specific stations with phone numbers). The Gujarat challan instructs you to produce a photocopy of the driving licence, or show it in DigiLocker, at the time of payment.", "If the challan sits with the Virtual Court, pay there instead: vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/, select Gujarat (Traffic Department) or Gujarat (Transport Department), use the Challan/Vehicle No. tab, click View, verify the OTP and choose 'Accept & Pay'. Court payments are processed through pay.ecourts.gov.in." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "mParivahan — the national MoRTH app (mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in); it carries challan lookup alongside virtual DL and RC, which MoRTH has notified as legally valid documents.", "Gujarat e-challans are pushed by SMS to the mobile number registered against the vehicle in Vahan — the challan itself records a 'Violator's Contact No.' field. There is no officially documented pull-SMS shortcode for Gujarat: you cannot text a code to retrieve your challan.", "UPI / banking apps (GPay, PhonePe, YONO and similar): Bills & Recharge → Traffic challan / eChallan → select 'Gujarat E-Challan' or 'State Traffic Branch Gujarat' → enter vehicle number → confirm. This route is printed as an official payment option on the Gujarat e-challan.", "DigiLocker — the Gujarat challan expressly accepts documents shown in DigiLocker in place of paper, and the Commissionerate of Transport penalty schedule states that documents produced in electronic form (DigiLocker) are valid, with 15 days allowed to produce documents after a demand." ], "court_challan_process": "Gujarat is one of the states wired into the national Virtual Courts system, and unusually it has two separate establishments on vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/: \"Gujarat(Traffic Department)\" (code GJVC02) and \"Gujarat(Transport Department)\" (code GJVC01). A challan reaches a court in two ways. First, offences that section 200 of the Motor Vehicles Act does not permit to be compounded cannot be settled by paying a fine at all — drunken driving under section 185 is the clearest example, and it is conspicuously absent from the Gujarat Commissionerate of Transport's published penalty schedule. Section 184 dangerous driving is compoundable \"only to the extent of use of handheld communication devices\", so other dangerous-driving allegations are court matters too. Second, an unpaid or contested challan is forwarded to court by the enforcement department. The NextGen eChallan portal exposes a \"Sent To Court\" status view showing Sent To Court On, Court Name, Court Address, Court Number, CL Number and the amount; it also distinguishes \"Consumption by Virtual Court / Proceeding is pending\", \"Transferred to Regular Court\" (with the note that the challan will then be disposed in the named regular court) and cases where it explains why the challan was not sent to the virtual court. To settle at the Virtual Court, select Gujarat and the relevant department, search on the Challan/Vehicle No. tab, click View, verify the OTP and choose \"Accept & Pay\"; payment runs through pay.ecourts.gov.in by card, internet banking or UPI. Critically, a challan forwarded to the Virtual Court can still be paid on the Parivahan portal, and the portal warns in terms not to pay in both places. Beyond the Virtual Court, the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority runs National Lok Adalats (held quarterly, on the second Saturday of the scheduled months, with the year's calendar published by GSLSA) at which pending traffic challan cases are taken up in bulk. A Lok Adalat award is deemed a decree of a civil court, is final and binding on the parties and carries no right of appeal; court fee already paid is refunded on settlement. Note the statutory limit: NALSA states that any matter relating to an offence not compoundable under the law cannot be settled in a Lok Adalat, so a drunk-driving prosecution must still run its course in the regular court.", "payment_methods": [ "UPI", "Debit card", "Credit card", "Internet banking", "UPI / banking apps via Bills & Recharge → Traffic challan → 'Gujarat E-Challan' / 'State Traffic Branch Gujarat' (GPay, PhonePe, YONO and similar)", "Cash at designated police stations listed district-wise on the Gujarat Police eChallan portal's Contact Us page", "Virtual Court payment through pay.ecourts.gov.in for challans forwarded to court" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "MoRTH eChallan helpdesk (email)", "value": "helpdesk-echallan[at]gov[dot]in" }, { "label": "MoRTH eChallan helpdesk (phone)", "value": "0120-4925505, 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM" }, { "label": "Gujarat Police — Traffic Related Issue helpline", "value": "1800 233 1122" }, { "label": "Gujarat Police — emergency", "value": "100 / 112" }, { "label": "Gujarat Police — cyber crime (useful for e-challan fraud APKs and fake payment links)", "value": "1930" }, { "label": "Commissionerate of Transport, Gujarat — driving licence printing and dispatch", "value": "079-29914473 / 079-29914474" }, { "label": "Commissionerate of Transport, Gujarat — registration certificate printing and dispatch", "value": "1800 121 1900" }, { "label": "District NETRAM Command and Control Centres (e-challan enforcement), e.g. Ahmedabad Rural", "value": "ccc-ahd@gujarat.gov.in — full district-wise list of ccc-*@gujarat.gov.in addresses on the Gujarat Police portal's Contact Us page" }, { "label": "Gujarat Police Citizen Portal (traffic-related complaints)", "value": "https://gujhome.gujarat.gov.in/portal/" } ], "quirks": [ "Three portals, one state — and they contradict each other. The Gujarat Police portal (echallanpayment.gujarat.gov.in) tells you to go to echallan.parivahan.gov.in; that legacy Parivahan portal's own notice board then lists GJ among the states whose challans must be checked and paid on the NextGen portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in. NextGen is where Gujarat actually lives — it carries dedicated gj-challan, gj-challan-transport, gj-payment and gj-payment-transport routes.", "Hard cutover date of 13 June 2023. The Gujarat Police portal carries a bilingual notice: challans dated 13/06/2023 or later must be checked and paid on the Parivahan portal. The old state portal is therefore only useful for legacy challans predating that date.", "The legacy Gujarat Police portal is visibly unmaintained: its root URL returns HTTP 500 (only the deep /sasguj/AccusedChallan/ paths work), its TLS chain fails to verify in strict clients, a modal reading 'Payment Service Unavailable (Online e-Challan Payment Portal shall be active in 10 Minutes)' is baked into every page, the General Instructions page is blank, the Contact Us page is titled 'DISCLAIMER', the nav has a 'Feedabck' typo and a permanent 'COMING SOON', and the footer still reads 'Copyright © 2019 Gujarat Police'.", "Gujarat notified sharply reduced compounding amounts after the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 took effect in the state. The current schedule is published by the Commissionerate of Transport at cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm — the page itself carries no notification date but its footer shows it was last updated 4 August 2026, so it is undated but current. No standalone gazette notification PDF is exposed on the Transport Department's own Notifications and Circulars page — that page lists only PUC rates, One Time Waiver tax items and ATS minutes.", "Not every offence was reduced. Driving an uninsured vehicle (s.196) is ₹2,000 first / ₹4,000 subsequent in Gujarat — identical to the central figure, not a discount. Over-speeding for an LMV is ₹2,000, which is the top of the central ₹1,000–₹2,000 band rather than a reduction.", "There is no Gujarat compounding amount for drunken driving. Section 185 does not appear in the state penalty schedule at all, because section 200 of the MV Act does not list it as compoundable. You cannot settle a drunk-driving challan by paying online — it goes to court. Gujarat is also a prohibition state, so alcohol offences can attract separate liability under state prohibition law.", "Section 200 makes section 184 compoundable 'only to the extent of use of handheld communication devices'. So a mobile-phone charge can be compounded, but other dangerous-driving allegations under s.184 — including red-light jumping when booked under that section — are strictly court matters, even though the state chart prints compounding amounts against s.184 generally.", "Gujarat's notified figure for a two-wheeler used without registration is ₹1,000, which sits below the statutory floor in section 192(1) of ₹2,000 (a provision the 2019 amendment left untouched). Some official charts show the statutory figure — the e-challan states the payable amount.", "PUC is charged two different ways on the same official page: 'PUC certificate not obtained' sits under s.177 at ₹500 (₹1,000 on repeat), while a measured breach of emission standards under s.190(2) is ₹1,000 for two/three-wheelers and LMVs and ₹3,000 for other vehicles. Which one you get depends on how the officer books it.", "The Transport Department's own Act & Rules page still serves the pre-2019 text of the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 (Mvact1988.pdf), which contains no sections 194B or 194D at all — while the department's penalty page prices those very sections. Do not use that PDF to check current penalties.", "Gujarat runs two separate Virtual Court establishments, not one: Gujarat(Traffic Department) and Gujarat(Transport Department). Pick the wrong one and your challan will not be found.", "A challan already forwarded to the Virtual Court can still be paid on the Parivahan portal, and the portal warns explicitly not to pay in both places — double payment is a real risk here, and refunds are governed by High Court rules, not by MoRTH.", "Every Gujarat e-challan carries a Gujarati-language cyber-fraud warning telling recipients not to click suspicious links and never to download traffic-challan APK files arriving over WhatsApp or social media. MoRTH separately warns about a cloned site at echallanparivahan.in that mimics the official portal to collect payments for fake violations.", "There is no dedicated Gujarat e-challan helpline. Traffic issues route to the general Gujarat Police traffic line 1800 233 1122; portal and payment problems go to the national MoRTH helpdesk on 0120-4925505.", "No Gujarat-specific discount, amnesty or one-time-settlement scheme for pending traffic challans could be found on any official state source. The practical route to a reduced amount is a National Lok Adalat sitting, scheduled quarterly by the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Which portal should I actually use for a Gujarat e-challan?", "a": "For any challan dated 13 June 2023 or later, use the NextGen eChallan portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services — the legacy Parivahan site's own notice board lists GJ among the states that moved there, and NextGen carries Gujarat-specific payment routes for both the Traffic and Transport departments. Only use the old Gujarat Police site, echallanpayment.gujarat.gov.in, for challans predating 13 June 2023; that site itself now redirects everyone else to Parivahan." }, { "q": "Why is my helmet fine ₹500 when the Motor Vehicles Act says ₹1,000?", "a": "Because Gujarat notified its own, lower compounding amounts after the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 came into force in the state. The Commissionerate of Transport's official penalty schedule prices section 194D (not wearing a helmet) at ₹500 and section 194B (no seat belt) at ₹500, against ₹1,000 each in the central Act — and Gujarat's schedule does not carry the three-month licence disqualification that section 194D attaches to the central figure. The amount your e-challan states is the amount payable." }, { "q": "Can I pay a drunk-driving challan online in Gujarat?", "a": "No. Section 200 of the Motor Vehicles Act does not list section 185 (drunken driving) as a compoundable offence, which is why it does not appear anywhere in Gujarat's official penalty schedule. The case goes to court, and because it is non-compoundable it also cannot be settled at a Lok Adalat. Gujarat is additionally a prohibition state, so a separate liability under state prohibition law may arise on the same facts." }, { "q": "My challan says it was sent to the Virtual Court. Do I still pay on Parivahan?", "a": "You can pay in either place, but never both. The Parivahan portal shows a disclaimer stating that the challan has been forwarded to the Virtual Court at vcourts.gov.in and that if you pay on the portal you must not pay at the Virtual Court, and vice versa. If you go the court route, select Gujarat(Traffic Department) or Gujarat(Transport Department) on vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/, search on the Challan/Vehicle No. tab, click View, verify the OTP and choose 'Accept & Pay'. Refunds for a double payment are governed by High Court rules, not by MoRTH, so they are slow." }, { "q": "Can I pay a Gujarat traffic challan from GPay or PhonePe?", "a": "Yes, and this route is printed as an official option on the Gujarat e-challan itself. In the app, open Bills & Recharge (or Recharge & Bills / Bill Payment), choose Traffic challan or eChallan, select 'Gujarat E-Challan' or 'State Traffic Branch Gujarat', enter the vehicle number and confirm to pay. The same challan carries a Gujarati warning never to download traffic-challan APK files sent over WhatsApp or social media — those are fraud." }, { "q": "Do I have to carry paper documents when paying or when stopped?", "a": "No. The Commissionerate of Transport's penalty schedule states that documents produced in electronic form through DigiLocker are valid, and that documents may be produced within 15 days from the date of demand. The Gujarat challan likewise accepts a driving licence shown in DigiLocker in place of a photocopy at the time of payment. Not having a document with you is charged under section 177 at ₹500, rising to ₹1,000 for a repeat offence." }, { "q": "Is there a discount scheme for old pending challans in Gujarat?", "a": "No official Gujarat discount, amnesty or one-time-settlement scheme for traffic challans is published on any state source as of August 2026. The realistic route to a reduced amount is a National Lok Adalat, which the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority schedules quarterly (second Saturday of the scheduled months, calendar published by GSLSA). A Lok Adalat award is deemed a decree of a civil court, is final and binding, and carries no right of appeal — and non-compoundable offences cannot be taken up there at all." }, { "q": "Can I pay a Gujarat challan in cash?", "a": "Yes. The Gujarat Police eChallan portal's Contact Us page lists designated police stations district by district, with addresses and phone numbers, specifically for offline and cash payment — for example the Traffic Branch opposite the Municipal Corporation in Bhavnagar (0278-2518090) or Gandhinagar Traffic opposite Swaminarayan Gurukul, Sector-22 (079-23230684). Carry a driving licence photocopy, or show it in DigiLocker." } ], "fine_overrides": { "driving-without-helmet": { "amount_text": "₹500 under s.194D. Gujarat's notified schedule lists no repeat-offence figure and no licence disqualification.", "source": "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm" }, "driving-without-seatbelt": { "amount_text": "₹500 under s.194B for failure to use safety belts while driving, with no separate repeat-offence figure listed.", "source": "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm" }, "driving-without-licence": { "amount_text": "₹2,000 for a two-wheeler and ₹3,000 for other vehicles under s.181, which also covers under-age driving and breach of learner-licence conditions.", "source": "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm" }, "overspeeding": { "amount_text": "₹1,500 two/three-wheeler and tractor, ₹2,000 LMV, ₹4,000 other vehicles. On repeat: ₹2,000, ₹2,000 and ₹3,000 respectively, while other vehicles face six months' disqualification from holding a licence instead of a fine.", "source": "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm" }, "dangerous-driving-red-light": { "amount_text": "₹1,500 two/three-wheeler, ₹3,000 LMV, ₹5,000 other vehicles under s.184 — Gujarat repeats the identical amounts for a second or subsequent offence rather than escalating.", "source": "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm" }, "mobile-phone-while-driving": { "amount_text": "₹1,500 two/three-wheeler, ₹3,000 LMV, ₹5,000 other vehicles — handheld-device use is compounded under s.184, which Gujarat's chart does not break out as a separate mobile-phone line.", "source": "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm" }, "driving-without-rc": { "amount_text": "₹1,000 two-wheeler, ₹2,000 three-wheeler, ₹3,000 four-wheel LMV, ₹5,000 other vehicles under s.192; a registration mark displayed in breach of rule 50/51 is ₹300 to ₹1,000 by vehicle type.", "source": "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm" }, "driving-without-puc": { "amount_text": "₹500, rising to ₹1,000 on repeat, where no PUC certificate has been obtained (s.177); a measured breach of emission standards under s.190(2) is ₹1,000 for two/three-wheelers and LMVs and ₹3,000 for other vehicles.", "source": "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm" } }, "sources": [ "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm", "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/act-rules.htm", "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/notifications.htm", "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/helpline-number.htm", "https://cot.gujarat.gov.in/writereaddata/Portal/images/pdf/Mvact1988.pdf", "https://echallanpayment.gujarat.gov.in/sasguj/AccusedChallan/NewAccusedChallan", "https://echallanpayment.gujarat.gov.in/sasguj/AccusedChallan/ContactUS", "https://echallanpayment.gujarat.gov.in/sasguj/AccusedChallan/GeneralInstructions", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/check-challan-status", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/assets/i18n/en.json", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "https://gujhome.gujarat.gov.in/portal/web?requestType=ApplicationRH&actionVal=showCenterContent&screenId=115&targetPage=helpLineNo", "https://www.indiacode.nic.in/repealedfileopen?rfilename=A2019-32.pdf", "https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/MVA.pdf", "https://nalsa.gov.in/lok-adalats", "https://gujarat.nalsa.gov.in/en/schedule-of-national-lok-adalat-2026/", "https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" }, { "slug": "haryana", "name": "Haryana", "target_keyword": "haryana e challan", "portals": [ { "label": "NextGen eChallan – Check Pending Challan Status / Pay Challan (serves Haryana)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan – E-Challan Payment Services hub (all 7 citizen services)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "MoRTH eChallan (legacy portal) – Challan Details page still linked by Haryana Traffic Police", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan – Grievance Entry Form (wrong / disputed challan)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/grievance", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "Virtual Courts – select \"Haryana(Traffic Department)\" to settle a court-referred challan", "url": "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Haryana Traffic Police (state traffic wing; carries the \"Pay Traffic Violation\" link)", "url": "https://traffic.haryanapolice.gov.in/", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "Gurugram Police – Offences & Penalties table (Haryana district fine schedule)", "url": "https://gurgaon.haryanapolice.gov.in/offences-penalties", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "e-GRAS Haryana (Treasuries & Accounts, Finance Dept) – verify challan / verify payment / forgot GRN", "url": "https://egrashry.nic.in/", "scope": "pay" } ], "check_steps": [ "Go to the NextGen eChallan services hub at https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services and click the \"Check Pending Challan Status\" tile. Haryana (HR) is one of the states migrated to NextGen — the old echallan.parivahan.gov.in page carries a notice listing HR among the states that must use the NextGen portal.", "On the \"CHECK PENDING CHALLAN STATUS\" screen pick one of the three tabs: \"Challan Number\", \"Vehicle Number\" or \"DL Number\".", "\"Challan Number\" needs only the challan number. \"Vehicle Number\" needs the vehicle number PLUS the \"Registration Date\" in DD/MM/YYYY. \"DL Number\" needs the DL number PLUS \"Date of Birth\" in DD/MM/YYYY — a change from the old portal, which asked for the last 5 characters of the chassis/engine number.", "Type the code shown in the \"Enter Captcha\" box (it is case-sensitive; use the circular arrow to refresh it or the speaker icon for an audio captcha), then click \"GET DETAILS\".", "Read the result rows — the portal shows Violator Name, DL/RC Number, Challan No, Transaction ID, State (HR for Haryana), Department, Challan Date, Amount, Status and Payment Source.", "For the challan copy with the photographic evidence, go back to the services hub and use the \"Download Challan Print\" tile; for an old payment use \"Download Payment Receipt\".", "If the challan no longer appears on the e-challan portal it has probably been sent to court — check it on https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ by choosing \"Haryana(Traffic Department)\"." ], "pay_steps": [ "From https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services click the \"Pay Challan\" tile — it opens the same three-tab search screen (Challan Number / Vehicle Number / DL Number) headed \"PAY CHALLAN\".", "Enter your identifier plus the second field the tab demands (Registration Date for a vehicle number, Date of Birth for a DL number), fill the \"Enter Captcha\" box and click \"GET DETAILS\".", "Check the offence description and the amount against the challan before paying — Haryana e-challans state the payable compounding amount, which is what you settle.", "Select the pending challan and proceed to the payment gateway, then complete the payment online.", "Save the receipt immediately using the \"Download Payment Receipt\" service on the services hub.", "If money left your account but the challan still shows pending, do NOT pay again — use the \"Check Pending Transaction\" service the NextGen notice board points to, which verifies stuck or deducted transactions.", "If the challan is already before the court, pay it instead on https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ — select \"Haryana(Traffic Department)\", search under the \"Challan/Vehicle No.\" tab, enter the captcha and submit.", "Offences Haryana does not compound online (drunken driving is shown as \"Court\" with no compounding amount in Haryana's own offence master) cannot be paid on the portal at all and must be settled through the court." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "mParivahan — the official MoRTH / NIC citizen mobile app, which carries transport records linked to your RC and DL including challan history, and links through to online challan payment. The eChallan portal warns to install it only from the official app store, as fake look-alike e-challan apps exist.", "There is no Haryana-only SMS short code or state challan-enquiry SMS service documented on any official Haryana Police or Haryana Transport page as of 12-Aug-2026 — treat any SMS number quoted on blogs as unverified." ], "court_challan_process": "Haryana has a functioning Virtual Court for traffic challans. PIB (Ministry of Law & Justice, 05 Dec 2024) confirms Haryana among the 21 States/UTs with operationalised Virtual Courts handling traffic challan cases, and the Virtual Courts portal's department dropdown carries a live entry \"Haryana(Traffic Department)\" (court code HRVC01, state code 14). Challans that Haryana does not compound on the spot — notably drunken driving, which Haryana's own e-challan offence master lists with no compounding amount and which Gurugram Police's schedule marks simply as \"Court\" — go to court from the outset, and compoundable challans left unpaid also migrate there. To settle one, open https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/, select \"Haryana(Traffic Department)\", click \"Proceed Now\", then search under one of four tabs — \"Mobile Number\", \"CNR Number\", \"Party Name\" or \"Challan/Vehicle No.\" — enter the captcha and submit. Where you accept the charge you can plead guilty and pay the fine online and the case is disposed without any court visit; the portal itself cautions that \"for adjudication purpose the Litigant may have to appear in person or through the Lawyer in the Court\", so a contested challan still goes before the concerned Judicial Magistrate in the district. Pending compoundable traffic cases in Haryana courts are also routinely listed for settlement at National Lok Adalats — the Haryana State Legal Services Authority lists 2026 dates of 14.03.2026, 09.05.2026, 12.09.2026 and 12.12.2026, and the Punjab & Haryana High Court Legal Services Committee has notified the 12.09.2026 National Lok Adalat.", "payment_methods": [ "Online on the NextGen eChallan portal (echallan.parivahan.nic.in) through its integrated payment gateway — the primary route for Haryana challans", "Online through the mParivahan app, the official MoRTH/NIC citizen app that carries challan history and payment", "Online through the Virtual Court at vcourts.gov.in (\"Haryana(Traffic Department)\") once the challan has gone to court", "e-GRAS Haryana (egrashry.nic.in), the Finance Department's Government Receipts Accounting System, which supports online and manual collection of state dues and provides Verify Challan / Verify Payment / Forgot GRN tools (guest login: user-id \"guest\", password \"guest\")", "In person, before the issuing traffic police unit or the court, for offences Haryana does not compound online (e.g. drunken driving)" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "Traffic toll-free / emergency (Haryana Traffic Police, round the clock)", "value": "112" }, { "label": "Haryana Traffic Police (SP Traffic office)", "value": "0184-2255028" }, { "label": "Haryana Traffic Police (alternate line)", "value": "0184-2283199" }, { "label": "Haryana Traffic Police email (AIG Traffic)", "value": "aigtraffic[at]gmail[dot]com" }, { "label": "Haryana Traffic Police email (SP Traffic)", "value": "sp.traffic[at]hry[dot]nic[dot]in" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan helpdesk email (MoRTH/NIC)", "value": "helpdesk-echallan[at]gov[dot]in" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan helpdesk phone (06:00 AM – 12:00 Midnight)", "value": "0120-4925505" }, { "label": "Haryana Police organised-crime tip line (not for challans)", "value": "0124-2265900 / 0124-2265903" } ], "quirks": [ "Haryana has migrated to the NextGen e-challan portal. The legacy page at echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan displays, verbatim: \"NOTE : Please check and pay your challans of AN, AR, AS, BR, CH, CG, DD, GA, HP, HR, JH, JK, KA, LA, MH, ML, MN, MZ, NL, PB, PY, SK, TN, UK, WB, RJ, GJ States on NextGen eChallan Portal\" — HR is Haryana. Use echallan.parivahan.nic.in.", "The Haryana Traffic Police website's own \"Pay Traffic Violation\" quick link still points at the OLD portal (https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan), which is exactly the page that redirects Haryana users away. Following the state link is the commonest way people conclude they have \"no challans\".", "The NextGen search fields changed: the \"Vehicle Number\" tab now asks for the vehicle's Registration Date (DD/MM/YYYY) and the \"DL Number\" tab for Date of Birth. The old portal asked for the last 5 characters of the chassis/engine number instead — guides written before the migration are wrong.", "Official Haryana Police fine tables contradict each other. faridabad.haryanapolice.gov.in/RR_OffenceandPenlates still shows pre-2019 amounts (helmet ₹100, driving without licence ₹500, seat belt ₹100), while the same district's \"New Rate of Traffic Chalaan\" PDF and gurgaon.haryanapolice.gov.in/offences-penalties (page last updated 26/11/2019) show the post-amendment ₹1,000 / ₹5,000 figures. The e-challan itself states the payable amount.", "haryanatransport.gov.in — which hosts the department's \"OFFENCES & PENALTIES\" and \"Regarding compounding of offences\" pages — was completely unreachable on 12-Aug-2026 (connection refused on both port 80 and port 443 from an Indian connection and from the fetch service). Any Haryana compounding notification hosted only there could not be read.", "Drunken driving is not settleable online in Haryana. Haryana's e-challan offence master (State: HR) shows drunken driving with a penalty of 0/0, and the Gurugram Police schedule records \"185/188 — Court — Court\". Same for a few other serious offences.", "Where the MV (Amendment) Act 2019 gives a range, Haryana compounds at the TOP of the range — ₹5,000 for red-light jumping and for mobile-phone use while driving (s.184, range ₹1,000–5,000), ₹2,000 for overspeeding in an LMV (s.183, range ₹1,000–2,000) and ₹4,000 for excess speed in an HMV/MMV passenger vehicle. So a Haryana e-challan can look higher than a \"minimum fine\" chart while still being the central figure.", "The two Parivahan portals publish different helpdesk hours for the same helpline (0120-4925505): the legacy site's footer says 6:00 AM–10:00 PM, the NextGen site says 06:00 AM–12:00 Midnight.", "The NextGen portal runs a standing warning that fraudulent websites and mobile apps impersonate the e-challan service and that it never asks for password, OTP or payment details by call, email, message or link — relevant in Haryana's NCR belt where such scams are common.", "Haryana's enforcement volume is large: the Haryana Traffic Police site records \"Total 43,49,043 challans have been issued and Rs. 69,36,41,972/- have been compounded w.e.f 01.01.2025 to 31.12.2025\", so portal queues and stuck payments are frequent — the \"Check Pending Transaction\" service exists for exactly this." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Which website actually shows Haryana (HR) e-challans?", "a": "The NextGen portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan. The older echallan.parivahan.gov.in page itself carries a notice naming HR among the states whose challans must be checked and paid on NextGen, even though the Haryana Traffic Police website still links to the old page." }, { "q": "I only have my HR vehicle number — what else does the portal ask for?", "a": "On NextGen the \"Vehicle Number\" tab also demands the vehicle's Registration Date in DD/MM/YYYY. If you search by DL you must supply your Date of Birth. Only the \"Challan Number\" tab works with nothing more than the captcha." }, { "q": "The money was debited but my Haryana challan still shows as pending — what do I do?", "a": "Do not pay again. The NextGen notice board says explicitly that if your payment is pending, stuck or deducted from your account you should use the \"Check Pending Transaction\" service to verify the transaction status. If it stays unresolved, file a grievance at echallan.parivahan.nic.in/grievance and track it at /grievance/search." }, { "q": "My challan has disappeared from the e-challan portal. Where did it go?", "a": "It has most likely been sent to court. Haryana runs an operational Virtual Court for traffic challan cases — open vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt, pick \"Haryana(Traffic Department)\", click Proceed Now and search by Mobile Number, CNR Number, Party Name or Challan/Vehicle No." }, { "q": "Can I pay a Haryana drunken-driving challan online?", "a": "No. Haryana's own e-challan offence master lists drunken driving with no compounding amount, and the Gurugram Police offences table records it under sections 185/188 as \"Court\". It has to be decided by the court, either the Virtual Court or the Judicial Magistrate." }, { "q": "Are Haryana's traffic fines different from the central Motor Vehicles Act amounts?", "a": "No separate Haryana compounding schedule could be traced. Haryana's e-challan offence master (State: HR) mirrors the MV (Amendment) Act 2019 figures — ₹1,000 for riding without a helmet, ₹1,000 for no seat belt, ₹5,000 for driving without a licence, ₹2,000 (₹4,000 repeat) for no third-party insurance and ₹5,000 (₹10,000 repeat) for no registration certificate." }, { "q": "Can a pending Haryana traffic case be settled at a Lok Adalat?", "a": "Compoundable cases pending in court can be taken up at National Lok Adalat sittings; the Haryana State Legal Services Authority lists 2026 dates of 14.03.2026, 09.05.2026, 12.09.2026 and 12.12.2026, and the Punjab & Haryana High Court Legal Services Committee has notified the 12.09.2026 sitting. Offences that are not compoundable under law cannot be settled there." } ], "fine_overrides": { "overspeeding": { "amount_text": "₹2,000 flat under s.183, per Gurugram Police's official schedule ('Driving fast/slower than national/local max/min speed limits') — same amount on repeat, unlike the central ₹1,000-2,000 LMV range that scales up.", "source": "https://gurgaon.haryanapolice.gov.in/offences-penalties" }, "dangerous-driving-red-light": { "amount_text": "₹5,000 first offence, ₹10,000 on repeat, for 'dangerous driving/abetment' under s.184 per Gurugram Police's official schedule — the top of the central ₹1,000-5,000 range.", "source": "https://gurgaon.haryanapolice.gov.in/offences-penalties" }, "mobile-phone-while-driving": { "amount_text": "₹5,000 first offence, ₹10,000 on repeat, for 'dangerous mobile phone use while driving' under s.184 per Gurugram Police's official schedule, matching the top of the central range.", "source": "https://gurgaon.haryanapolice.gov.in/offences-penalties" } }, "sources": [ "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/payment", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/grievance", "https://traffic.haryanapolice.gov.in/", "https://traffic.haryanapolice.gov.in/contactus", "https://traffic.haryanapolice.gov.in/challan", "https://traffic.haryanapolice.gov.in/Rules", "https://haryanapolice.gov.in/", "https://gurgaon.haryanapolice.gov.in/offences-penalties", "https://faridabad.haryanapolice.gov.in/Document/Traffic%20Chalaan.pdf", "https://faridabad.haryanapolice.gov.in/RR_OffenceandPenlates", "https://hansi.haryanapolice.gov.in/writereaddata/Document/Motor_vehicel_section_&_fine.pdf", "https://rohtak.haryanapolice.gov.in/challaninf", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/index.php", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/main.php", "https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2081106", "https://haryana.nalsa.gov.in/lok-adalat/", "https://highcourtchd.gov.in/hclscc/?trs=lokadalat", "https://nalsa.gov.in/lok-adalats", "https://egrashry.nic.in/", "https://www.egazetteharyana.gov.in/", "https://parivahan.gov.in/sites/default/files/FAQDOCS/Echallan/eChallan-brochure-ver-1.0.pdf" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" }, { "slug": "jammu-kashmir", "name": "Jammu and Kashmir", "target_keyword": "e challan jk", "portals": [ { "label": "NextGen eChallan – Check Pending Challan Status / Pay Challan (serves Jammu and Kashmir, state code JK)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan – E-Challan Payment Services hub (all 7 citizen services)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "MoRTH eChallan (legacy portal) – the page J&K Traffic Police still links to; it carries the notice sending JK users to NextGen", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan – Grievance Entry Form (wrong / disputed challan)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/grievance", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan – Check Grievance Status (by Ticket / Challan / Vehicle / DL number)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/grievance/search", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "Virtual Courts – select \"Jammu and Kashmir(Jammu Traffic Department)\" or \"Jammu and Kashmir(Kashmir Traffic Department)\" for a court-referred challan", "url": "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "J&K Traffic Police (official UT traffic wing site, NIC J&K)", "url": "https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "J&K Traffic Police – Rules & Regulations page hosting the \"Offence/fine\" master and the SOP for e-challaning", "url": "https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/rules.html", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "J&K Traffic Police – Public Notice page listing vehicles with pending e-court challans (City Srinagar, Rural Kashmir, City Jammu)", "url": "https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/Notice.html", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "Department of Transport, UT of Jammu and Kashmir (Acts & Rules, notifications)", "url": "https://transport.jk.gov.in/", "scope": "check" } ], "check_steps": [ "Go to the NextGen eChallan services hub at https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services and click the \"Check Pending Challan Status\" tile. Jammu and Kashmir is one of the jurisdictions migrated to NextGen — the old echallan.parivahan.gov.in page carries a notice listing JK among the states whose challans must be handled on the NextGen portal.", "On the \"CHECK PENDING CHALLAN STATUS\" screen choose one of the three tabs: \"Challan Number\", \"Vehicle Number\" or \"DL Number\".", "\"Challan Number\" needs only the challan number. \"Vehicle Number\" needs your JK vehicle number PLUS the vehicle's \"Registration Date\". \"DL Number\" needs the DL number PLUS \"Date of Birth\" — the old portal instead asked for the last 5 characters of the chassis/engine number, so pre-migration guides are wrong.", "Fill the \"Enter Captcha\" box (it is case-sensitive) and click \"GET DETAILS\".", "Read the result rows — the portal returns the challan number, offence, challan date, amount and status against your vehicle or licence.", "For the challan copy with the photographic evidence use the \"Download Challan Print\" tile on the services hub; for a settled challan use \"Download Payment Receipt\".", "If nothing shows but you were stopped or sent a notice, check the court route: a J&K challan referred to court leaves the e-challan portal. Open https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ and pick \"Jammu and Kashmir(Jammu Traffic Department)\" or \"Jammu and Kashmir(Kashmir Traffic Department)\" depending on which division issued it.", "Srinagar, Rural Kashmir and Jammu traffic police have also published Public Notices listing vehicles with pending e-court challans at https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/Notice.html — worth checking if your challan predates the current portal records." ], "pay_steps": [ "From https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services click the \"Pay Challan\" tile — it opens the same three-tab search screen (Challan Number / Vehicle Number / DL Number).", "Enter your identifier plus the second field that tab demands (Registration Date for a vehicle number, Date of Birth for a DL number), fill the captcha and click \"GET DETAILS\".", "Check the offence description and the amount against the challan before paying — a J&K e-challan states the payable compounding amount, which is what you settle.", "Select the pending challan and proceed to the payment gateway, then complete the payment online.", "Save the receipt immediately using the \"Download Payment Receipt\" service on the services hub.", "If money left your account but the challan still shows pending, do NOT pay again — the portal's own notice board says to use the \"Check Pending Transaction\" service to verify the transaction status. If it stays unresolved, file a grievance at https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/grievance and track it at https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/grievance/search.", "If the challan has been referred to court, pay it instead at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ — select the correct J&K department (Jammu or Kashmir Traffic Department), click \"Proceed Now\", then search under \"Mobile Number\", \"CNR Number\", \"Party Name\" or \"Challan/Vehicle No.\", enter the captcha and submit.", "Offences that are not compoundable — drunken driving under s.185 and the s.184 dangerous-driving group (which in J&K's own offence master includes jumping a red light and wrong-side driving) — cannot be settled on the portal at all and must be decided by the court.", "J&K's SOP for e-challaning also provides for on-the-spot payment by credit or debit card on the enforcement officer's device, besides online payment through the internet payment gateway." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "mParivahan — the official MoRTH / NIC citizen mobile app, which carries transport records linked to your RC and DL including challan history and links through to online challan payment. The eChallan portal runs a standing warning to use only the official app, as fake look-alike e-challan apps exist.", "J&K's SOP for the e-challan system records that the platform sends alerts through SMS, so a challan booked against your vehicle may reach you as a text — but there is no J&K-only SMS short code you can query. No official J&K Traffic Police or Transport Department page documents a challan-enquiry SMS number as of 13-Aug-2026; treat any SMS number quoted on blogs as unverified." ], "court_challan_process": "Jammu and Kashmir runs Virtual Courts for traffic challans, and it appears twice in the Virtual Courts department dropdown, split by region into two separate entries — \"Jammu and Kashmir(Jammu Traffic Department)\" and \"Jammu and Kashmir(Kashmir Traffic Department)\" — reflecting the traffic police's two ranges. Other states also have two dropdown entries each (Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Uttarakhand), but theirs split by department type — e.g. Traffic + Transport — rather than by region, making J&K's split unusual. Pick the one matching the division where the challan was issued; there is no Ladakh entry at all. To settle a case, open https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/, select the correct J&K department, click \"Proceed Now\", then search under one of four tabs — \"Mobile Number\", \"CNR Number\", \"Party Name\" or \"Challan/Vehicle No.\" — enter the captcha and submit. Where you accept the charge you can plead guilty and pay online without a court visit; the portal cautions that for adjudication a litigant may have to appear in person or through a lawyer. In J&K the traffic court itself is the Court of the Special Mobile Magistrate (Traffic) for Srinagar and for Jammu, and the J&K Traffic Police's SOP for e-challaning provides for \"Challan Dispatch to Court (Court referral)\" directly from the e-challan system. Offences J&K does not compound — drunken driving under s.185 and the s.184 dangerous-driving group, which its offence master marks non-compoundable — go to that court from the outset. Unpaid court challans are pursued: Srinagar City Traffic Police issued a Public Notice circulating a Special Mobile Magistrate (Traffic) list of 7,366 vehicles with pending e-court challans, warning that failure to dispose of them would lead to impounding of vehicles and a recommendation for cancellation of registration.", "payment_methods": [ "Online on the NextGen eChallan portal (echallan.parivahan.nic.in) through its integrated payment gateway — the primary route for JK challans", "Online through the mParivahan app, the official MoRTH/NIC citizen app that carries challan history and payment", "Online through the Virtual Court at vcourts.gov.in (Jammu or Kashmir Traffic Department) once the challan has been referred to court", "On the spot by credit or debit card on the enforcement officer's e-challan device, which J&K's SOP for the e-challan system expressly provides for", "In person, before the Court of the Special Mobile Magistrate (Traffic), for offences that are not compoundable" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "Traffic / police emergency (round the clock)", "value": "112" }, { "label": "IGP Traffic J&K, Srinagar office", "value": "0194-2479871" }, { "label": "IGP Traffic J&K, Jammu office", "value": "0191-2467302" }, { "label": "IGP Traffic J&K email", "value": "igtraffic[at]jkpolice[dot]gov[dot]in" }, { "label": "DIG Traffic Jammu email", "value": "digtfcjmu[at]jkpolice[dot]gov[dot]in" }, { "label": "DIG Traffic Kashmir email", "value": "digtrfckmr[at]jkpolice[dot]gov[dot]in" }, { "label": "Traffic Control Unit Jammu", "value": "0191-2451192 / 0191-2459048 / 103" }, { "label": "Traffic Control Unit Srinagar (SSP Traffic City Srinagar office)", "value": "0194-2455179" }, { "label": "Traffic Control Unit Ramban (Jammu–Srinagar National Highway)", "value": "9419993745" }, { "label": "Traffic Control Unit Udhampur", "value": "8491928625" }, { "label": "eChallan helpdesk email (MoRTH/NIC)", "value": "helpdesk-echallan[at]gov[dot]in" }, { "label": "eChallan helpdesk phone (published on the legacy portal, 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM)", "value": "0120-4925505" } ], "quirks": [ "Jammu and Kashmir has migrated to the NextGen e-challan portal. The legacy page at echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan displays, verbatim: \"NOTE : Please check and pay your challans of AN, AR, AS, BR, CH, CG, DD, GA, HP, HR, JH, JK, KA, LA, MH, ML, MN, MZ, NL, PB, PY, SK, TN, UK, WB, RJ, GJ States on NextGen eChallan Portal\" — JK is Jammu and Kashmir. Use echallan.parivahan.nic.in.", "The J&K Traffic Police's own website (trafficpolice.jk.gov.in) still sends you to the OLD portal — its only e-challan link points at https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in, which is exactly the site that redirects JK users away. Following the state link is the commonest way people conclude they have \"no challans\".", "jktrafficpolice.nic.in, still returned by search engines as the J&K traffic police site, does not resolve at all — DNS lookup failed with ENOTFOUND on 13-Aug-2026. The live official site is trafficpolice.jk.gov.in.", "J&K appears twice in the Virtual Courts department dropdown, split by region: \"Jammu and Kashmir(Jammu Traffic Department)\" and \"Jammu and Kashmir(Kashmir Traffic Department)\". It isn't the only state with two entries — Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur and Uttarakhand also have two each — but those split by department type (e.g. Traffic + Transport), so J&K's regional split is the unusual one. Choosing the wrong one will not find your case. Verified live on 13-Aug-2026.", "Ladakh is no longer part of Jammu and Kashmir. Since the reorganisation of 31-Oct-2019 it is a separate Union Territory and the e-challan system carries LA as a state code distinct from JK — the legacy portal's migration notice lists both separately. A challan issued in Leh or Kargil is not a JK challan, and Ladakh has no Virtual Courts entry at all.", "The traffic court in J&K is the Court of the Special Mobile Magistrate (Traffic), sitting for Srinagar and for Jammu — not an ordinary magistrate's court. J&K's e-challan SOP provides for \"Challan Dispatch to Court (Court referral)\" straight from the system.", "J&K still books a large number of offences under the Jammu & Kashmir Motor Vehicle Rules, 1991, which survived the 2019 reorganisation, alongside the central Motor Vehicle Act 1988 \"as per amended Act No. 32 of 2019\". Its own offence master cites, for example, the seat-belt offence to J&K Motor Vehicle Rules 1991 rule 194-B rather than to the central section. The section quoted on a JK challan may therefore not match a central-Act chart.", "No J&K-specific fine schedule with different amounts could be traced. The UT's Transport Department publishes only the central Motor Vehicles Act 1988 and Central Motor Vehicles Rules 1989 on its Acts and Rules page, its Notifications page carries nothing on compounding or penalties, and the J&K Traffic Police \"Offence/fine\" master mirrors the central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 figures — ₹1,000 helmet, ₹1,000 seat belt, ₹5,000 driving without a licence, ₹2,000 (₹4,000 repeat) uninsured, ₹10,000 without PUC, ₹1,000–2,000 LMV overspeeding. So no state fine overrides are published on this page.", "The J&K Law Department's SRO/SO archive at law.jk.gov.in can be searched on the text inside the notification PDFs, and it returns no compounding schedule for traffic offences: a full-text search for \"compounding of offences\" surfaces only Labour, Social Security and Legal Metrology rules, and a search for \"section 200\" returns a single Transport Department item — S.O. 441 of 28-09-2018, the J&K Road Safety Fund Rules 2018, which merely defines a compounding fee as one \"collected by the officers authorized under Section 200, of the Motor Vehicles Act 1988\" and sets no amounts. There is also no J&K e-gazette of its own; the Law Department links out to the national egazette.gov.in.", "The central Motor Vehicles Act 1988 was not \"extended\" to J&K in 2019 — it already applied. Section 1(2) of the Act reads \"It extends to the whole of India\", and the Act names Jammu and Kashmir nowhere; consistently, the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 does not appear in Table-1 of the Fifth Schedule to the J&K Reorganisation Act 2019 (the list of central laws made applicable), while the J&K Motor Vehicles Taxation Act 1957 survives in Table-4. What the 2019 reorganisation changed was the residual state law: the J&K Motor Vehicles Act, Samvat 1998 was displaced by the J&K Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) Order 2020 of 31-03-2020.", "That J&K \"Offence/fine\" master is a departmental document, not a gazette notification: its own PDF metadata shows it was produced from a spreadsheet named \"Edited offence code. 10-03-22.xlsx\" and printed to PDF on 24-06-2022, and it carries no SRO/SO number or date on its face. It is the offence list the enforcement system uses, but it is not a compounding notification.", "J&K's offence master goes further than the central Act on repeat speeding: for a second and subsequent excessive-speed offence by a medium goods or passenger vehicle it records \"IMPOUND VEHICLE\", where the central Act's section 206(4) impounds the driving licence. Overloading under s.194(1) likewise carries ₹20,000 plus ₹2,000 per extra tonne with the vehicle impounded on repeat.", "A pending J&K challan can freeze your paperwork. The UT's SOP for the e-challan system states that \"Blockage of transactions on concerned vehicle/licence can be done, in case of pending challan\" — so an unpaid challan can hold up RC or DL work at the RTO, not just sit as a debt.", "Srinagar, Rural Kashmir and Jammu traffic police publish PDF Public Notices naming vehicles with pending e-court challans (https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/Notice.html). One Srinagar notice circulated a Special Mobile Magistrate (Traffic) list of 7,366 vehicles and warned that non-disposal would lead to impounding of vehicles and recommendation for cancellation of registration.", "The J&K traffic police headquarters moves with the season, and the official SOP letterhead prints two fax lines accordingly — Srinagar for May–Oct and Jammu for Nov–Apr. Which office answers depends on the month you call.", "The NextGen portal publishes no helpdesk contact of its own: its \"Contact Us\" button is a dead JavaScript link that opened nothing on 13-Aug-2026 and its footer carries only the NIC copyright line. The helpline 0120-4925505 (6:00 AM – 10:00 PM) and helpdesk-echallan@gov.in appear only on the legacy portal.", "The NextGen portal runs a standing warning that fraudulent websites and mobile apps impersonate the e-challan service and that it never asks for password, OTP or payment details by call, email, message or link." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Which website actually shows JK e-challans?", "a": "The NextGen portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan. The older echallan.parivahan.gov.in page itself carries a notice naming JK among the states whose challans must be checked and paid on NextGen — even though the J&K Traffic Police website still links only to that old page." }, { "q": "I only have my JK vehicle number — what else does the portal ask for?", "a": "On NextGen the \"Vehicle Number\" tab also demands the vehicle's Registration Date. If you search by driving licence you must supply your Date of Birth instead. Only the \"Challan Number\" tab works with nothing more than the number and the captcha." }, { "q": "My challan is not on the portal. Which Virtual Court do I choose for Jammu and Kashmir?", "a": "It has probably been referred to court. J&K has two entries in the Virtual Courts dropdown, split by region — \"Jammu and Kashmir(Jammu Traffic Department)\" and \"Jammu and Kashmir(Kashmir Traffic Department)\". Other states with two entries (like Delhi and Maharashtra) split by department type instead, so J&K's regional split is the unusual part. Pick the division that issued the challan, then search by Mobile Number, CNR Number, Party Name or Challan/Vehicle No." }, { "q": "Are traffic fines in Jammu and Kashmir different from the central Motor Vehicles Act amounts?", "a": "No separate J&K compounding schedule could be traced. The UT Transport Department publishes only the central Motor Vehicles Act 1988 and Central Motor Vehicles Rules 1989, and the J&K Traffic Police offence master mirrors the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 figures — ₹1,000 for no helmet, ₹1,000 for no seat belt, ₹5,000 for driving without a licence and ₹10,000 for no PUC certificate." }, { "q": "Does a challan from Leh or Kargil count as a Jammu and Kashmir challan?", "a": "No. Ladakh became a separate Union Territory on 31-Oct-2019 and the e-challan system treats LA as a state code distinct from JK — the legacy portal's migration notice lists them separately. Ladakh also has no entry in the Virtual Courts dropdown, so a Ladakh court challan cannot be settled through the J&K departments." }, { "q": "Can I pay a J&K drunken-driving or red-light challan online?", "a": "No. J&K's own offence master marks drunken driving under section 185 and the section 184 dangerous-driving group — which it applies to jumping a red light and wrong-side driving — as non-compoundable. Those have to be decided by the Court of the Special Mobile Magistrate (Traffic), through the Virtual Court or in person." }, { "q": "What happens if I simply ignore a pending J&K challan?", "a": "Two things. J&K's e-challan SOP allows \"blockage of transactions on concerned vehicle/licence\" while a challan is pending, so RC and DL work at the RTO can stall. Separately, traffic police have published Public Notices listing vehicles with pending e-court challans and warned that non-disposal leads to impounding of the vehicle and a recommendation for cancellation of registration." }, { "q": "The money was debited but my JK challan still shows pending — what do I do?", "a": "Do not pay again. The NextGen notice board says explicitly that if your payment is pending, stuck or deducted from your account you should use the \"Check Pending Transaction\" service to verify the transaction status. If it stays unresolved, file a grievance at echallan.parivahan.nic.in/grievance and track it at /grievance/search." } ], "fine_overrides": {}, "sources": [ "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/grievance", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/grievance/search", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/main.php", "https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/", "https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/rules.html", "https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/contact.html", "https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/Notice.html", "https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/documents/Rules/Rules%20&%20Regulations.pdf", "https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/documents/Rules/SOP.pdf", "https://trafficpolice.jk.gov.in/documents/Notice/City%20Srinagar.pdf", "https://www.jkpolice.gov.in/JK-Traffic-Police", "https://transport.jk.gov.in/", "https://transport.jk.gov.in/actandrules.html", "https://transport.jk.gov.in/notifications.html", "https://www.indiacode.nic.in/handle/123456789/12030", "https://www.indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/15875/1/the_jammu_and_kashmir_reorganisation_act_2019.pdf", "https://www.indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/9460/1/a1988-59.pdf", "https://law.jk.gov.in/LnJNotSRO_SO.php", "https://law.jk.gov.in/LnJActNRulStaActs.php" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-13" }, { "slug": "karnataka", "name": "Karnataka", "target_keyword": "karnataka e challan", "portals": [ { "label": "NextGen eChallan (Parivahan) - services home, the portal that now serves Karnataka", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan - Check Pending Challan Status / Pay Challan form", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Legacy eChallan Parivahan 'Challan Details' page (carries the notice redirecting KA users to NextGen)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "Bengaluru Traffic Police - Traffic Challan Payment (hosted on KSP app server, mobile+OTP)", "url": "https://kspapp.ksp.gov.in/ksp/api/traffic-challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Bengaluru Traffic Police official site (Pay Traffic Fine link, e-challan info)", "url": "https://btp.karnataka.gov.in/", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Karnataka One - Bangalore Police Services (traffic fine check & pay)", "url": "https://www.karnatakaone.gov.in/Info/Public/BangalorePoliceServices", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Virtual Courts - Karnataka (Traffic Department), for challans referred to court", "url": "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "scope": "both" } ], "check_steps": [ "Open the NextGen eChallan portal at https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services. Karnataka has migrated here: the older echallan.parivahan.gov.in 'Challan Details' page now carries a notice listing KA among the states whose challans must be checked and paid on the NextGen eChallan Portal.", "Click the 'Check Pending Challan Status' tile (first of seven tiles: Check Pending Challan Status, Pay Challan, Download Challan Print, Download Payment Receipt, Check Pending Transaction, Raise Grievance, Check Grievance Status).", "On the 'CHECK PENDING CHALLAN STATUS' card pick one of the three tabs: 'Challan Number', 'Vehicle Number' or 'DL Number'.", "Fill the tab's fields. 'Challan Number' needs only the challan number. 'Vehicle Number' needs Vehicle Number plus Registration Date in DD/MM/YYYY. 'DL Number' needs DL Number plus Date of Birth in DD/MM/YYYY.", "Type the code shown in the 'Enter Captcha' box into 'Enter Captcha Here'. A speaker icon reads the captcha aloud and a refresh icon regenerates it. Then press 'GET DETAILS' ('GO BACK' returns to the tile menu).", "For a Bengaluru city challan you can instead use the Bengaluru Traffic Police page at https://kspapp.ksp.gov.in/ksp/api/traffic-challan: enter your number in 'Mobile / ಮૌಬೈಲ઼', press 'Get OTP', type the code into 'OTP / ಒ.ಟೀ.ಪಿ' and press 'Verify / ಪರಿಶೀಲಸಿ'. It lists challans linked to that mobile number, so the number must be the one recorded in Vahan.", "If a challan does not appear as payable online it may already have been referred to court. Check it at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ by selecting 'Karnataka(Traffic Department)' and searching by Mobile Number, CNR Number, Party Name or Challan/Vehicle No." ], "pay_steps": [ "After 'GET DETAILS' on the NextGen portal returns your pending challans, select the challans you want to clear and continue to payment; the 'Pay Challan' tile on the services page is the direct entry point for the same step.", "Complete payment on the gateway using UPI, net banking, debit card or credit card.", "Download proof from the services page: 'Download Payment Receipt' for the receipt and 'Download Challan Print' for the challan copy.", "If money left your account but the challan still shows unpaid, use 'Check Pending Transaction' on the NextGen services page before paying a second time - the portal's own Notice Board directs stuck or deducted payments to this service.", "For Bengaluru challans on https://kspapp.ksp.gov.in/ksp/api/traffic-challan, after OTP verification review the listed challans and pay through the offered gateway (Karnataka One documents NTT DATA and Razorpay as the gateways) by UPI, net banking or card; a receipt is issued immediately.", "To pay in person, Bengaluru Traffic Police list these counters: all Traffic Police Stations of Bengaluru, the Fine Collection Centre in the Traffic Management Centre, any traffic police officer carrying a PDA device, and Bengaluru One or Karnataka One centres.", "A challan already sent to court cannot be cleared on the e-challan portal - settle it through the Karnataka Virtual Court at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ or before the magistrate." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "NextGen mParivahan app (MoRTH / NIC) - listed as an official MoRTH product on parivahan.gov.in; the national app for RC, DL and eChallan check and payment, and the app counterpart of the NextGen eChallan portal that serves Karnataka.", "KSP App (Karnataka State Police) - named by Bengaluru Traffic Police as a channel where contactless-enforcement challans can be paid.", "BTP ASTraM app (Bengaluru Traffic Police) - named by BTP as a challan payment channel; the app's own official page describes it as a traffic-management engine and a route for the public to report violations by photo.", "No SMS query service is documented for Karnataka. SMS is outbound only: BTP states the e-challan system fetches owner data from Vahan and 'sends the challan via SMS and a physical copy of the IMS 133 notice is sent to the violator's address'.", "QR code on the printed IMV 133 notice - scanning it shows the photographic evidence, offers a payment option and lets the recipient raise a dispute." ], "court_challan_process": "Karnataka runs a Virtual Court for traffic cases. On https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ the department dropdown carries an entry \"Karnataka(Traffic Department)\" (internal code KAVC01); selecting it and pressing \"Proceed Now\" opens a search screen with four tabs - Mobile Number, CNR Number, Party Name and Challan/Vehicle No. - each protected by a captcha with an audio option. Cases can be searched, the plea entered and the fine paid online, so most compoundable traffic matters never require a physical appearance. Which offences reach court is set by the state's own compounding notification. Karnataka's gazette notification TD 250 TDO 2019 (21-09-2019) compounds only the offences in its table, and Bengaluru Traffic Police's Spot Fines list expressly marks drunken driving (s.185), driving without permit and driving without a fitness certificate as \"Court Fine\". The BTP FAQ is blunt about drunk driving: \"you will be issued a police notice for the appearance in the Court. There is no provision of paying the fine on the spot. Only court is empowered to impose the fine,\" and it adds that the vehicle may be left at the police station and the driving licence retained by police until the case is disposed of. The notification also withholds compounding power from police officers for several sections (113/114/115 r/w 194, 182, 62A r/w 182B, 182A(1), 182A(3), 182A(4), 190, 192, 192A, 194 and 194A), which for those offences leaves the transport authorities or the court. Where a spot fine is refused, the driving licence is surrendered and the matter proceeds through the police station or the court. Long-pending compoundable challans are also routinely cleared through National Lok Adalat sittings organised by the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority, and the state separately runs recurring limited-window discount drives announced via press — check btp.karnataka.gov.in / ksp.karnataka.gov.in for any active window.", "payment_methods": [ "UPI", "Net banking", "Debit card", "Credit card", "NextGen eChallan portal (echallan.parivahan.nic.in)", "NextGen mParivahan app", "KSP App", "BTP ASTraM app", "Bengaluru Traffic Police payment page (kspapp.ksp.gov.in)", "Karnataka One / Bengaluru One citizen service centres", "Traffic police stations in Bengaluru", "Fine Collection Centre at the Traffic Management Centre, Bengaluru", "Cash or card to a traffic police officer carrying a PDA device (spot fine)", "Virtual Court online payment for court-referred challans" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "NextGen eChallan helpdesk (email)", "value": "helpdesk-echallan[at]gov[dot]in" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan helpdesk (phone, 06:00 AM - 12:00 Midnight)", "value": "0120-4925505" }, { "label": "Karnataka One helpdesk (8 AM to 7 PM)", "value": "080-49203888 / 8904085030" }, { "label": "Karnataka One helpdesk (email)", "value": "onehelpdesk@karnataka.gov.in" }, { "label": "Bengaluru Traffic Police general helpline", "value": "080-22943381" }, { "label": "Bengaluru Traffic Police email (also used for citizen violation reports)", "value": "automationpubbcp@ksp.gov.in" }, { "label": "Bengaluru Traffic Police control room / WhatsApp", "value": "9480801800" }, { "label": "DCP Traffic East, Bengaluru", "value": "080-22942346" }, { "label": "DCP Traffic West, Bengaluru", "value": "080-22942318" }, { "label": "DCP Traffic North, Bengaluru", "value": "080-22942411" }, { "label": "DCP Traffic South, Bengaluru", "value": "080-22942346" }, { "label": "Police emergency (Karnataka State Police)", "value": "112" } ], "quirks": [ "Karnataka has migrated to the NextGen eChallan portal. The legacy echallan.parivahan.gov.in 'Challan Details' page still loads and still shows its Challan Number / Vehicle Number / DL Number radio buttons, but its Notice Board lists KA among the states whose challans must be handled on the NextGen eChallan Portal - so searching there for a Karnataka challan is a wasted trip.", "The NextGen search is stricter than the old one. Searching by vehicle number now demands the Registration Date (DD/MM/YYYY), and searching by DL demands the Date of Birth; the old portal asked only for the number plus a captcha.", "NextGen is a single-page app and its Karnataka routes (/challan/ka-challan, /challan/ka-payment, /challan/vehicle-release-karnataka) render blank if opened directly - you must click through from the services page, which sets the router state.", "The Bengaluru payment page is gated behind a mobile OTP rather than a vehicle number, so it only surfaces challans tied to the mobile number recorded in Vahan. If your Vahan mobile is stale, use the NextGen portal instead.", "The widely circulated legacy domain bangaloretrafficpolice.gov.in is dead - it refuses connections outright. The live Bengaluru Traffic Police site is btp.karnataka.gov.in, whose 'Pay Traffic Fine' button points at kspapp.ksp.gov.in.", "Karnataka notified its own compounding amounts under section 200 MV Act, sharply below the central MV (Amendment) Act 2019 figures - helmet and seat belt at Rs 500 instead of Rs 1,000, and failure to give way to an emergency vehicle at Rs 1,000 instead of Rs 10,000. The operative instrument is gazette notification TD 250 TDO 2019 dated 21-09-2019 (Karnataka Gazette Part IVA No. 781), which itself supersedes an earlier TD 250 TDO 2019 dated 03-09-2019.", "The Bengaluru Traffic Police 'Spot Fines' page is of mixed vintage. Its heading still cites Government Order No. TRD.309.SAEPA.2006 dated 29.10.2007, yet several rows carry post-2019 amounts that match the 2019 gazette. Treat the gazette as the notified authority and the printed challan as the payable figure.", "Official Karnataka pages disagree on the mobile-phone fine. The gazette sets Rs 1,500 (2W/3W), Rs 3,000 (LMV) and Rs 5,000 (others), and the BTP Spot Fines table agrees; but the BTP FAQ states 'Rs.1,500/- for Two / Three Wheeler, Rs.1,500/- for LMV and Rs.5,000/- for other Vehicles'. The FAQ's LMV figure appears to be an error.", "Official pages also disagree on the pollution offence. The gazette compounds a breach of air-pollution standards under s.190(2) at Rs 1,500 (2W/3W) and Rs 3,000 (LMV, heavy and others), while the BTP Spot Fines row for 'Emitting Black Smoke' under 190(2) still shows Rs 500 first offence and Rs 1,000 for repeats.", "Several offences are not compoundable at all in Karnataka and go straight to court: BTP's Spot Fines list marks drunken driving (s.185), driving without permit and driving without a fitness certificate as 'Court Fine'. The compounding notification also bars police officers from compounding ss. 113/114/115 r/w 194, 182, 62A r/w 182B, 182A(1), 182A(3), 182A(4), 190, 192, 192A, 194 and 194A.", "The Rs 500 helmet fine does not remove the central consequence - section 194D also carries disqualification of the driving licence for three months, which the state notification does not and cannot waive.", "Karnataka has run recurring limited-window challan-discount drives; dates are announced via press - check btp.karnataka.gov.in or ksp.karnataka.gov.in before assuming one is active.", "Bengaluru enforcement is largely contactless: AI cameras (ITEMS) at 50 junctions plus safe-city surveillance, with the challan pushed by SMS and a physical IMS/IMV 133 notice posted to the Vahan address. The notice carries a QR code that shows the photo evidence and allows both payment and a dispute.", "District police 'Traffic Fines' pages on the karnataka.gov.in network (Mysuru, Raichur, Koppal) silently redirect to the district homepage - the fine schedule they used to host is gone, so the transport department gazette PDF is the only reliable state source." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Which portal actually shows Karnataka challans - parivahan.gov.in or the NextGen site?", "a": "The NextGen portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in. The old echallan.parivahan.gov.in 'Challan Details' page still works for some states, but its Notice Board explicitly lists KA among the states whose challans must be checked and paid on the NextGen eChallan Portal. Bengaluru city challans can additionally be paid on the Bengaluru Traffic Police page at kspapp.ksp.gov.in, which is OTP-based." }, { "q": "Why does the portal ask for a registration date when I search by vehicle number?", "a": "The NextGen 'Check Pending Challan Status' screen requires Vehicle Number plus Registration Date in DD/MM/YYYY on the Vehicle Number tab, and DL Number plus Date of Birth on the DL tab. It is an identity check so that anyone cannot pull up challans from a number plate alone. The date must match the registration date in Vahan - it is printed on your RC. If you only have the challan number, the Challan Number tab needs nothing but that number and the captcha." }, { "q": "Is the helmet fine in Karnataka Rs 1,000 or Rs 500?", "a": "Rs 500. Karnataka used its power under section 200 of the Motor Vehicles Act to notify its own compounding amounts, and gazette notification TD 250 TDO 2019 dated 21-09-2019 sets Rs 500 for not wearing protective head gear under section 194-D, against the Rs 1,000 in the central MV (Amendment) Act 2019. Bengaluru Traffic Police list the same Rs 500 for both rider and pillion. Note that section 194D also carries a three-month licence disqualification, which the state cannot waive." }, { "q": "Can I pay a drunk-driving challan online in Karnataka?", "a": "No. Drunken driving under section 185 is not compoundable in Karnataka - Bengaluru Traffic Police's Spot Fines table marks it 'Court Fine'. The BTP FAQ states you will be issued a police notice to appear in court, that there is no provision to pay on the spot and only the court can impose the fine, and that your driving licence may be held by police until the case is disposed of. Punishment is up to six months' imprisonment or up to Rs 10,000 for a first offence, and up to two years or Rs 15,000 for a repeat. Driving without a permit and without a fitness certificate are likewise court matters." }, { "q": "My challan is not showing on the e-challan portal - where has it gone?", "a": "It has most likely been referred to court. Karnataka has a Virtual Court for traffic matters: go to vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt, choose 'Karnataka(Traffic Department)' from the department dropdown and press Proceed Now, then search by Mobile Number, CNR Number, Party Name or Challan/Vehicle No. You can enter your plea and pay the fine online there. Long-pending compoundable challans are also cleared in bulk at National Lok Adalat sittings organised by the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority." }, { "q": "I paid but the challan still shows as pending - what should I do?", "a": "Use 'Check Pending Transaction' on the NextGen services page before paying again. The portal's own Notice Board says that if your payment is pending, stuck or deducted from your account, this service is the one to verify transaction status. Do not repeat the payment first, or you risk a double debit that then needs a refund. If it still does not resolve, raise it through 'Raise Grievance' on the same page, or call the eChallan helpdesk on 0120-4925505 (06:00 to midnight)." }, { "q": "Does Karnataka give a discount on old pending traffic fines?", "a": "Periodically, yes. Karnataka has run recurring limited-window challan-discount drives; dates are announced via press - check btp.karnataka.gov.in or ksp.karnataka.gov.in before assuming one is active. Outside an active window the full notified amount is payable." }, { "q": "I got a printed notice by post with a QR code - is it genuine?", "a": "Very likely yes. Bengaluru's contactless enforcement uses AI cameras (ITEMS) at 50 junctions plus safe-city surveillance; once a violation image is validated, the e-challan system pulls owner details from Vahan and sends the challan by SMS along with a physical IMS/IMV 133 notice to the registered address. BTP has added a QR code to that notice - scanning it shows the photographic evidence of the violation, offers a payment option, and lets you raise a dispute if the challan is wrong." } ], "fine_overrides": { "driving-without-helmet": { "amount_text": "₹500 for the rider and ₹500 for the pillion under s.194-D, half the ₹1,000 central figure. The central three-month licence disqualification still applies.", "source": "https://transport.karnataka.gov.in/storage/pdf-files/section%20200.pdf" }, "driving-without-seatbelt": { "amount_text": "₹500 under s.194-B, against ₹1,000 in the central MV (Amendment) Act 2019.", "source": "https://transport.karnataka.gov.in/storage/pdf-files/section%20200.pdf" }, "driving-without-licence": { "amount_text": "₹1,000 for two- and three-wheelers, ₹2,000 for LMV and ₹5,000 for other vehicles under s.181, instead of the flat ₹5,000 in the central Act.", "source": "https://transport.karnataka.gov.in/storage/pdf-files/section%20200.pdf" }, "driving-without-insurance": { "amount_text": "₹1,000 for two- and three-wheelers, ₹2,000 for LMV and ₹4,000 for HGV and others under s.196; the central first-offence figure is ₹2,000.", "source": "https://transport.karnataka.gov.in/storage/pdf-files/section%20200.pdf" }, "overspeeding": { "amount_text": "Fixed at ₹1,000 for 2W/3W/LMV and ₹2,000 for MGV/MPV/HGV/HPV and others under s.183, rather than the central ₹1,000-2,000 and ₹2,000-4,000 ranges.", "source": "https://transport.karnataka.gov.in/storage/pdf-files/section%20200.pdf" }, "dangerous-driving-red-light": { "amount_text": "₹500 (Bengaluru Traffic Police schedule; statewide gazette compounds s.184 only for handheld devices), for jumping a signal under Rule 119 read with s.177. BTP separately lists general dangerous driving under s.184 at ₹1,000 first, ₹2,000 repeat.", "source": "https://btp.karnataka.gov.in/117/spot-fines/en" }, "mobile-phone-while-driving": { "amount_text": "₹1,500 for 2W/3W, ₹3,000 for LMV and ₹5,000 for other vehicles on a first offence, and ₹10,000 for a second or later offence under s.184(c); the central figure is ₹5,000 rising to ₹10,000.", "source": "https://transport.karnataka.gov.in/storage/pdf-files/section%20200.pdf" }, "driving-without-rc": { "amount_text": "₹2,000 for 2W/3W, ₹3,000 for LMV and ₹5,000 for MGV/MPV/HGV/HPV and others under s.192(1), instead of a single ₹5,000 slab.", "source": "https://transport.karnataka.gov.in/storage/pdf-files/section%20200.pdf" }, "driving-without-puc": { "amount_text": "₹1,500 for 2W/3W and ₹3,000 for LMV, heavy and other vehicles for breaching prescribed air-pollution standards under s.190(2); the central Act sets ₹10,000.", "source": "https://transport.karnataka.gov.in/storage/pdf-files/section%20200.pdf" } }, "sources": [ "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan", "https://transport.karnataka.gov.in/47/notifications/en", "https://transport.karnataka.gov.in/storage/pdf-files/section%20200.pdf", "https://btp.karnataka.gov.in/", "https://btp.karnataka.gov.in/117/spot-fines/en", "https://btp.karnataka.gov.in/212/e-challan-system/en", "https://btp.karnataka.gov.in/105/contactless-enforcement/en", "https://btp.karnataka.gov.in/220/faq/en", "https://btp.karnataka.gov.in/btp_map_locations/en", "https://btp.karnataka.gov.in/209/astram/en", "https://kspapp.ksp.gov.in/ksp/api/traffic-challan", "https://www.karnatakaone.gov.in/Info/Public/BangalorePoliceServices", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "https://ksp.karnataka.gov.in/page/FAQ/Traffic/en", "https://parivahan.gov.in/" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" }, { "slug": "madhya-pradesh", "name": "Madhya Pradesh", "target_keyword": "mp e challan", "portals": [ { "label": "Madhya Pradesh Police e-Challan (MPOnline) — state traffic-police challans", "url": "https://echallan.mponline.gov.in/", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "MoRTH eChallan (legacy Parivahan portal) — the portal that still serves MP", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Virtual Courts (e-Challan) — for MP challans referred to court", "url": "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "scope": "both" } ], "check_steps": [ "Open https://echallan.mponline.gov.in/ — the 'Madhya Pradesh Police e-Challan' portal, served by MPOnline Limited. This is the state's own traffic-police challan system.", "On the 'Search Challan Detail' card there is exactly ONE search input: 'Vehicle Number *' (placeholder shows the format 'Vehicle Number (i.e. MP00XX0000)'). There is no challan-number or DL search on this portal.", "Type the vehicle number, read the distorted-text captcha image into the 'Enter Captcha Text' box (use the recycle/refresh icon beside it if the text is unreadable), then click the red 'Search' button.", "Cross-check on the national portal at https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan — in the 'Challan Details' card choose one of the three radio options 'Challan Number', 'Vehicle Number' or 'DL Number', fill the single field plus the black-box captcha, then click 'GET DETAIL'. Use this route when you know the challan number or DL number.", "Do NOT use the NextGen portal (echallan.parivahan.nic.in) for MP. Its migration notice, read on the legacy portal today, lists only AN, AR, AS, BR, CH, CG, DD, GA, HP, HR, JH, JK, KA, LA, MH, ML, MN, MZ, NL, PB, PY, SK, TN, UK, WB, RJ, GJ — Madhya Pradesh is not among them.", "If a challan does not appear on either portal, it may already have gone to court: search https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ and pick 'Madhya Pradesh (Traffic Department)' from the department dropdown." ], "pay_steps": [ "On https://echallan.mponline.gov.in/ run the Vehicle Number + captcha search, select the pending challan from the result list, and continue to the MPOnline payment gateway (net banking / debit / credit card / UPI). MPOnline kiosks across the state also accept challan payments over the counter.", "On https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan, after 'GET DETAIL' returns the challan, tick the challan you want to clear and proceed to pay. The portal asks for a mobile number and verifies it by OTP ('Get OTP' then 'Submit') before opening the payment gateway.", "Always download and keep the receipt. On the MPOnline portal the button 'Click here for payment duplicate receipt' (below the search card) re-issues a receipt you have lost.", "If money was debited but no receipt or acknowledgement appeared, use the yellow banner link on the MPOnline home page: 'In case of payment deducted from your bank account but you had not received the acknowledgement. Kindly Click here for payment double verification.' On the Parivahan portal the equivalent is 'Check Pending Transaction' / 'Check Vahan PGI Transaction Status' on the Notice Board.", "For a challan already referred to court, pay through https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ under 'Madhya Pradesh (Traffic Department)' — paying the fine there disposes the case immediately, without a personal appearance." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "mParivahan app (MoRTH / NIC, national): check pending challans and pay them, and carry the legally valid virtual RC and DL. This is the only officially documented app route for MP, since MP has no separate state challan app documented on an official page.", "Challan intimation SMS: MP Police e-challans are notified to the mobile number registered against the vehicle. This is an outbound alert only — there is no officially documented inbound SMS keyword/shortcode for Madhya Pradesh." ], "court_challan_process": "Madhya Pradesh is live on the Supreme Court e-Committee's Virtual Court system: the department dropdown at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ carries an entry for \"Madhya Pradesh (Traffic Department)\". When an MP traffic challan is not paid at the police stage, or the offence is one the officer refers to court, the challan is pushed from the eChallan system into the Virtual Court, where it becomes a case. The official eChallan portal itself redirects users for these: challan-status pages state that for the status of challans sent to virtual court one should visit vcourts.gov.in. On the Virtual Court you can locate the case by challan number, vehicle number, CNR number, party name or mobile number. You may then either pay the fine online — which disposes the case the same moment, with no appearance and no lawyer — or contest it, in which case the matter is taken out of the virtual court and listed before the regular magistrate's court having jurisdiction, where you must appear. Separately, MP traffic cases already pending before regular courts are routinely taken up in National Lok Adalats organised by the Madhya Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (MPSLSA, Jabalpur), which sit on a single day across all courts from taluka level upward; MPSLSA's official position is that any pending case may be settled there, but that \"any matter relating to an offence not compoundable under the law shall not be settled\" — petty MV Act offences are compoundable, so they qualify. MPSLSA publishes a National Lok Adalat schedule; the concessional settlement amounts are decided by the bench on the day and are not published in advance as a fixed statewide discount.", "payment_methods": [ "Net banking", "Debit card", "Credit card", "UPI", "MPOnline kiosks (offline, over the counter)", "Cashless card/UPI payment on the officer's POS machine at the roadside", "Virtual Court online payment gateway (for court-referred challans)" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "National eChallan helpdesk (phone, 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM)", "value": "0120-4925505" }, { "label": "National eChallan helpdesk (email)", "value": "helpdesk-echallan@gov.in" }, { "label": "MP Police emergency (Police)", "value": "112 / 100" }, { "label": "MP Police Headquarters exchange, Bhopal", "value": "0755-2501000" }, { "label": "MP Police SSR (State Situation Room)", "value": "0755-2443655" }, { "label": "Fire", "value": "101" }, { "label": "Ambulance", "value": "102 / 108" } ], "quirks": [ "Madhya Pradesh has NOT migrated to the NextGen eChallan portal. The migration notice displayed on echallan.parivahan.gov.in today lists AN, AR, AS, BR, CH, CG, DD, GA, HP, HR, JH, JK, KA, LA, MH, ML, MN, MZ, NL, PB, PY, SK, TN, UK, WB, RJ, GJ — MP is absent. MP challans stay on the legacy portal. (CG in that list is Chhattisgarh, not MP — easy to misread.)", "MP effectively runs two challan lookups. The state traffic-police system is echallan.mponline.gov.in (MP Police branding, 'Served By: MPOnline'), while the national system is echallan.parivahan.gov.in. A challan visible on one is not guaranteed to be visible on the other, so check both before concluding you are clear.", "The MP Police / MPOnline portal searches by VEHICLE NUMBER ONLY. There is no challan-number and no driving-licence search on it. If you only have a challan number or DL number you must use the Parivahan portal, which offers all three radio options.", "The official MP Transport Department fine table at transport.mp.gov.in/offences-penalties is badly out of date: it still lists pre-2019 Motor Vehicles Act maxima (helmet ₹100/₹300, driving without licence 3 months or ₹500, uninsured vehicle ₹1,000, drunk driving ₹2,000, mobile phone ₹100/₹300). These are the un-amended 1988 Act figures and are described on the page as 'Maximum of punishment', not as compounding amounts. Do not quote them as current payable fines.", "Because that stale table is the only MP-branded fine list online, virtually every insurance and RTO blog copies it — which is why so many 'MP traffic fine 2026' pages show ₹100 helmet fines. The amount actually demanded is the one printed on the e-challan.", "mptrafficpolice.gov.in does not resolve (DNS NXDOMAIN), and echallan.mptrafficpolice.com — cited by several blogs as 'the official MP Traffic Police website' — also does not resolve. There is no separate live MP Traffic Police e-challan domain; treat any such link as dead or unsafe.", "Lookalike fraud domains are an active problem: mparivahan-echallan.net, m-parivahan.co and mparivaahan.com all surface in search results imitating Parivahan. Both official portals carry a standing red-banner warning that they never request password, OTP or payment details via calls, emails, messages or links.", "No official page could be found today either confirming a later MP compounding schedule or restating the state's current position, so the state-notified position is genuinely opaque.", "MPOnline is a paid service-delivery agency and its payment screens generally display a portal/user charge on top of the fine. The exact amount is not disclosed anywhere on the landing page and could not be verified on an official page today — check the figure shown on the payment screen before confirming.", "The Madhya Pradesh state gazette portal govtpressmp.nic.in refused HTTPS connections today (ECONNREFUSED), so the primary gazette route for verifying any state notification was unavailable." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Which portal actually works for a Madhya Pradesh e-challan — Parivahan, NextGen, or the MP Police site?", "a": "For MP you use the MP Police portal at echallan.mponline.gov.in and/or the legacy MoRTH portal at echallan.parivahan.gov.in. Do NOT use the NextGen portal (echallan.parivahan.nic.in): its own migration notice lists 27 states/UTs and Madhya Pradesh is not one of them. Check both MP-serving portals, because a challan raised by city traffic police may show on the MPOnline system while an RTO/transport-enforcement challan shows on Parivahan." }, { "q": "I only have my challan number, but the MP Police portal won't accept it. What do I do?", "a": "The echallan.mponline.gov.in portal deliberately offers a single search field — 'Vehicle Number' in the format MP00XX0000 — plus a captcha. It has no challan-number or DL lookup at all. To search by challan number or driving-licence number, go instead to echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan, where the 'Challan Details' card gives you three radio options: Challan Number, Vehicle Number and DL Number." }, { "q": "Why do MP fine lists show a ₹100 helmet fine when I was charged far more?", "a": "Because the MP Transport Department's own 'Offences & Penalties' page at transport.mp.gov.in/offences-penalties has never been updated past the pre-2019 Motor Vehicles Act, and it lists old statutory maxima (helmet ₹100 first offence / ₹300 repeat, drunk driving ₹2,000, no licence ₹500). Those are not current payable compounding amounts, and the page labels them 'Maximum of punishment' rather than fines to be paid. Blogs copy that stale table wholesale. The binding figure is the amount printed on your actual e-challan." }, { "q": "My money was debited but I never got a receipt. How do I fix it?", "a": "On echallan.mponline.gov.in there is a yellow banner across the top of the home page for exactly this: 'In case of payment deducted from your bank account but you had not received the acknowledgement. Kindly Click here for payment double verification.' Use that link first. If you simply mislaid a receipt for a successful payment, use the separate 'Click here for payment duplicate receipt' button below the search card. On the Parivahan portal the equivalents are 'Check Pending Transaction' and 'Check Vahan PGI Transaction Status' on the Notice Board." }, { "q": "What happens if I ignore an MP challan and it goes to court?", "a": "It is pushed into the Virtual Court system, where Madhya Pradesh appears as 'Madhya Pradesh (Traffic Department)'. Search for it at vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ by challan number, vehicle number, CNR number, party name or mobile number. Paying the fine there disposes the case at once, with no appearance and no lawyer needed. If you contest instead, the case leaves the virtual court and is listed before the regular magistrate, where you must appear in person. Cases already pending in regular courts can also be settled at a National Lok Adalat organised by MPSLSA." }, { "q": "Is there an official MP Traffic Police website or app for challans?", "a": "No. mptrafficpolice.gov.in and echallan.mptrafficpolice.com are both dead — neither domain resolves — despite being widely cited by blogs. The only officially documented app route is the national mParivahan app from MoRTH/NIC, which lets you check and pay challans and carry a valid virtual RC and DL. Madhya Pradesh has no separate state challan app or inbound SMS shortcode documented on any official page." } ], "fine_overrides": {}, "sources": [ "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://echallan.mponline.gov.in/", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/contact-us", "https://transport.mp.gov.in/offences-penalties", "https://transport.mp.gov.in/e-governance/important-circulars", "https://transport.mp.gov.in/", "https://www.mppolice.gov.in/en/helpline-numbers", "https://vcourts.gov.in/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "https://damoh.nic.in/en/e-challan/", "https://madhyapradesh.nalsa.gov.in/lok-adalat/" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" }, { "slug": "maharashtra", "name": "Maharashtra", "target_keyword": "maharashtra e challan", "portals": [ { "label": "Maharashtra Traffic Police e-Challan payment", "url": "https://mahatrafficechallan.gov.in/payechallan/PaymentService.htm", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "MoRTH NextGen e-Challan portal (Maharashtra challans)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Maharashtra e-Challan grievance (wrongly booked challan or payment issue)", "url": "https://mahatrafficechallan.gov.in/MH-Echallan-Grievance/Grievance.htm", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "Virtual Courts — Maharashtra (Transport Department / Nashik Traffic Department)", "url": "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "scope": "both" } ], "check_steps": [ "Open https://mahatrafficechallan.gov.in/. It redirects to https://mahatrafficechallan.gov.in/payechallan/PaymentService.htm with a session token appended, so bookmark the plain domain rather than the tokenised URL. The page is operated by the Additional Director General of Police (Traffic), Maharashtra State, Mumbai.", "Choose the 'Vehicle No.' or 'Challan No.' radio button at the top of the form.", "If you picked Vehicle No., enter the registration number and also the last 4 digits of the chassis or engine number — the portal makes both mandatory, so a plain registration-number search will not return anything.", "Enter the code shown and click Submit to list the pending challans against that vehicle or challan number.", "Cross-check on the MoRTH NextGen e-challan portal at https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services. The older national portal now carries a note routing Maharashtra (MH) challans there, and NextGen lets you search by Challan Number, Vehicle Number, DL Number, Mobile Number, E-Ticket number or NBT Notice with a captcha.", "If the challan has gone to court, check https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ — but note that only Maharashtra(Transport Department) and Maharashtra(NASHIK TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT) exist there, so most city traffic challans will not be found on Virtual Courts." ], "pay_steps": [ "On the NextGen portal, enter the vehicle or challan number together with the captcha — this is the sequence the portal itself documents for paying on the e-Challan Parivahan website.", "Click 'Get Detail' to list the challans against that number.", "Enter the OTP sent to the mobile number registered against the vehicle, then click 'Pay Now'.", "Pay by debit card, credit card, internet banking or UPI, and download the receipt from the RECEIPT column before leaving the page.", "On the state portal, select the challan from the search result and complete the payment on the state gateway instead — either route clears the same challan, so do not pay both.", "If the payment is deducted but the challan stays open, or the challan was booked wrongly, use the grievance link at https://mahatrafficechallan.gov.in/MH-Echallan-Grievance/Grievance.htm or the helpdesk on 844 844 8960." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "mParivahan, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways citizen app, listed on https://parivahan.gov.in/ under Other Products & Services and reachable at https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/.", "Link your mobile number to your vehicle number on the state portal — the home page carries a 'Click here to link/unlink mobile number to your vehicle number' link, which is what makes challan SMS reach you.", "The NextGen portal sends a one-time password to the mobile number held against the vehicle before it will take payment, so an out-of-date number blocks payment as well as alerts.", "The Maha Traffic App — named alongside the portal in the Maharashtra Highway Traffic Police FAQ as an official way to check challan status and pay.", "For Nashik City the same FAQ points users to mParivahan or https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in instead of the state portal.", "Keep the Vahan record current at https://vahan.parivahan.gov.in/mobileupdate/ if the number on the RC is wrong." ], "court_challan_process": "Maharashtra's own portal only handles compoundable challans: you find them by vehicle or challan number and pay, and nothing on that site offers a contest route. Non-compoundable offences are a separate track. Section 200 of the Motor Vehicles Act lists which offences may be compounded, and drunken driving under Section 185 is not on the list, nor is any limb of dangerous driving under Section 184 except clause (c) of the Explanation, which covers use of handheld communication devices. Those cases are prosecuted before the jurisdictional magistrate and the accused must appear. Virtual Courts is only a partial answer in Maharashtra: the department list on https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ carries exactly two Maharashtra entries, Maharashtra(Transport Department) and Maharashtra(NASHIK TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT), so unlike Delhi — which has both a Traffic Department and a Notice Department on the platform — there is no statewide virtual court covering Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur or Thane city traffic police challans. Where a case is on Virtual Courts, the flow published by the e-Courts project is: select the state and department, search by mobile number, CNR number, party name or challan/vehicle number, click 'View' to open the detailed challan, verify by OTP or, if the mobile number on the challan is wrong, by the vehicle's engine and chassis number checked against RTO data, then either pay the fine through the ePay gateway or select 'I wish to contest the case', after which the acknowledgement names the physical court and the date assigned. The MoRTH portal separately warns that a challan forwarded to Virtual Court can still be paid on the e-challan portal, and asks you not to pay in both places.", "payment_methods": [ "Debit card", "Credit card", "Net banking", "UPI", "Offline at the nearest traffic division or police station with a copy of the challan or the vehicle details" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "Maharashtra e-Challan helpdesk", "value": "844 844 8960" }, { "label": "Maharashtra e-Challan helpdesk email", "value": "helpdesk@mahatrafficechallan.gov.in" }, { "label": "Portal operated by", "value": "Additional Director General of Police (Traffic), Maharashtra State, Mumbai" }, { "label": "National e-challan helpdesk", "value": "0120-4925505, 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM — helpdesk-echallan@gov.in" } ], "quirks": [ "The state portal will not search on a registration number alone. It also demands the last 4 digits of the chassis or engine number, which you take from the RC — this is the single most common reason a Maharashtra search returns nothing.", "Maharashtra's compounding amounts come from Home Department notification No.MVR-0919/C.R.200/TRA-2 dated 26 November 2021, issued under Section 200(1) MV Act 'in supersession of all previous notifications' and published in the Maharashtra Government Gazette, Extraordinary Part IV-A No. 205. It is a 33-row schedule covering Sections 177 to 198.", "The gazette is served from the state e-Gazette portal at egazzete.mahaonline.gov.in — note the misspelling, with a double z. The obvious addresses egazette.maharashtra.gov.in and egazette.nic.in do not exist at all. There is no stable link to the PDF: it is delivered by an ASP.NET postback, so it must be retrieved by searching Division 'CENTRAL SECTION', Gazette Type 'Extra - Ordinary', both dates 26/11/2021.", "Two official Maharashtra documents give different numbers for the same offence. Where the Highway Traffic Police 'Acts and Fine' schedule and the 2021 gazette overlap they agree exactly on speeding, phone use, PUC, registration and insurance — but for helmets the gazette says ₹500 and the police schedule ₹1,000, and for seat belts the gazette says ₹200 and the police schedule ₹1,000. In both cases the police figure equals the statutory fine under the MV Act while the gazette figure is the notified compounding amount, so an e-challan may show either.", "The gazette contains no commencement clause — the words 'force', 'commence', 'effect' and 'December' appear nowhere in it. Any claim that these amounts took effect on a particular date in December 2021 comes from press reporting, not from the notification.", "The notification lets very junior officers compound. Police Naiks may do so in the Thane, Pune, Nagpur and Navi Mumbai commissionerates, and ordinary Police Constables may do so in Mumbai city — a wider delegation than most states allow.", "mahatrafficechallan.gov.in redirects to /payechallan/PaymentService.htm with a per-session token in the query string. The token is not stable, so bookmark https://mahatrafficechallan.gov.in/ and let it redirect.", "Maharashtra has moved to the MoRTH NextGen e-challan portal. echallan.parivahan.gov.in now carries a note sending MH (with 26 other states and UTs) to https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services, so a challan missing on one portal may still appear on the other — check both.", "Virtual Courts covers only two Maharashtra departments, Transport and Nashik Traffic. There is no virtual court for Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur or Thane traffic police challans, so a court challan in those cities means an actual court date.", "The state portal is a payment counter, not a rulebook. Its only functions are the challan search, a mobile link/unlink page and a grievance form; there is no offence or penalty schedule on it, and its footer reads 'Website last updated on: 15/09/2025'.", "Maharashtra books many offences twice — once against the driver and once against the owner or the person in authorised possession of the vehicle. No registration, no insurance, no PUC, no helmet and the child-restraint offence all appear as paired driver and owner rows.", "Red light jumping is treated quite differently from Delhi. Maharashtra's schedule marks 'Dangerous driving' under Sec 184 MVA as Non-Compoundable with a fine of 0, but books 'Jumping signal' separately under MMVR 239/177 MVA at ₹500 / ₹1,500 — so an ordinary signal violation stays payable online here.", "Maharashtra grades several fines by vehicle class where the central Act does not: overspeeding runs across 2/3-wheeler, tractor, LMV and MMV/HMV, and handheld phone use across 2/3-wheeler, LMV and other vehicles.", "Nashik is the odd one out. Maharashtra Highway Traffic Police's own FAQ tells Nashik City users to check mParivahan or echallan.parivahan.gov.in rather than the state portal — and Nashik is also the only city traffic department Maharashtra has on Virtual Courts." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Why does the Maharashtra e-challan site show no challans for my vehicle number?", "a": "Almost always because the second field was left blank. The state portal at mahatrafficechallan.gov.in requires the registration number and the last 4 digits of the chassis or engine number together — its own validation message is 'Please enter last 4 digits of Chassis or Engine No'. The other possibility is that the challan is only on the MoRTH NextGen portal, since Maharashtra challans are now routed to echallan.parivahan.nic.in." }, { "q": "Which is the official Maharashtra e-challan website?", "a": "https://mahatrafficechallan.gov.in, operated by the Additional Director General of Police (Traffic), Maharashtra State, Mumbai, with a helpdesk on 844 844 8960 and helpdesk@mahatrafficechallan.gov.in. Maharashtra challans are also served by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways NextGen e-challan portal at https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services." }, { "q": "Can I pay a Maharashtra traffic challan through Virtual Courts?", "a": "Only for two departments. The Virtual Courts department list carries just Maharashtra(Transport Department) and Maharashtra(NASHIK TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT). City traffic police court challans elsewhere in the state are not on that platform and are heard by the ordinary magistrate's court, so there is no online 'pay fine' or 'request to contest' button for them." }, { "q": "Where can I see Maharashtra's own traffic fine amounts?", "a": "Two places, and they do not fully agree. The legally operative one is Home Department notification No.MVR-0919/C.R.200/TRA-2 dated 26 November 2021, issued under Section 200(1) of the MV Act in supersession of all previous notifications and published in the Maharashtra Government Gazette, Extraordinary Part IV-A No. 205. It sets the amount for which each offence may be compounded, and you retrieve it from the state e-Gazette at https://egazzete.mahaonline.gov.in/Forms/GazetteSearch.aspx by searching Division 'CENTRAL SECTION', Gazette Type 'Extra - Ordinary' and both dates 26/11/2021 — there is no direct link to the file. The more readable one is a 234-row 'Acts and Fine' document under Information → Acts & Rules at https://highwaypolice.maharashtra.gov.in/info-rules-page/. They match on most offences, but for helmets and seat belts the police document prints the statutory MV Act fine rather than the lower notified compounding amount." }, { "q": "How do I dispute a challan booked on my vehicle by mistake?", "a": "The state portal carries a dedicated link, 'Click here to raise a grievance for wrongly booked challan or any payment issue', which opens https://mahatrafficechallan.gov.in/MH-Echallan-Grievance/Grievance.htm. The same route handles payments that were debited but did not clear the challan; the helpdesk number 844 844 8960 is published on the same page." } ], "fine_overrides": { "overspeeding": { "amount_text": "₹1,000 for a two/three-wheeler, ₹1,500 for a tractor, ₹2,000 for an LMV and ₹4,000 for other vehicles (183(1)) — four state-notified classes where the central Act has only two", "source": "https://egazzete.mahaonline.gov.in/Forms/GazetteSearch.aspx" }, "driving-without-rc": { "amount_text": "₹2,000 first offence and ₹5,000 for a second or subsequent one (192(1)) — the repeat figure is ₹5,000, not the ₹10,000 the central section allows", "source": "https://egazzete.mahaonline.gov.in/Forms/GazetteSearch.aspx" }, "driving-without-puc": { "amount_text": "₹1,000 for a two/three-wheeler and ₹2,000 for other vehicles, each with a 3-month licence disqualification, rising to ₹3,000 and ₹5,000 on repeat (190(2)) — far below the ₹10,000 central ceiling. Failing to produce a PUC certificate is a lighter ₹500 / ₹1,500", "source": "https://egazzete.mahaonline.gov.in/Forms/GazetteSearch.aspx" }, "mobile-phone-while-driving": { "amount_text": "₹1,000 for a two/three-wheeler, ₹2,000 for an LMV and ₹4,000 for other vehicles, or ₹10,000 for a repeat within 3 years. The state's Section 184 entry is confined to handheld devices — the only limb of 184 that Section 200 lets be compounded", "source": "https://egazzete.mahaonline.gov.in/Forms/GazetteSearch.aspx" }, "dangerous-driving-red-light": { "amount_text": "Not compoundable as dangerous driving — the state's Section 184 entry covers only handheld devices. An ordinary signal violation is instead booked under MMVR 239 with Section 177 at ₹500, or ₹1,500 on repeat, so it usually stays payable online here", "source": "https://egazzete.mahaonline.gov.in/Forms/GazetteSearch.aspx" }, "drunk-driving": { "amount_text": "Not compoundable — Section 185 appears nowhere in the state compounding schedule, which steps straight from 184 to 186. There is no amount at which it can be settled out of court", "source": "https://egazzete.mahaonline.gov.in/Forms/GazetteSearch.aspx" }, "driving-without-helmet": { "amount_text": "₹500 + 3-month licence disqualification (194D, state-notified; some official charts show the ₹1,000 statutory figure — the e-challan states the payable amount)", "source": "https://egazzete.mahaonline.gov.in/Forms/GazetteSearch.aspx" }, "driving-without-seatbelt": { "amount_text": "₹200 for the driver and ₹200 where a child up to 14 is not in an appropriate restraint (194B) — state-notified; some official charts show the ₹1,000 statutory figure, and the e-challan states the payable amount", "source": "https://egazzete.mahaonline.gov.in/Forms/GazetteSearch.aspx" } }, "sources": [ "https://egazzete.mahaonline.gov.in/Forms/GazetteSearch.aspx", "https://mahatrafficechallan.gov.in/payechallan/PaymentService.htm", "https://mahatrafficechallan.gov.in/MH-Echallan-Grievance/Grievance.htm", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "https://highwaypolice.maharashtra.gov.in/info-rules-page/", "https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s35dec707028b05bcbd3a1db5640f842c5/uploads/2025/04/202504251593727433.pdf", "https://highwaypolice.maharashtra.gov.in/faq/", "https://highwaypolice.maharashtra.gov.in/e-challan-page/", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/help.php", "https://www.indiacode.nic.in/show-data?actid=AC_CEN_30_42_00009_198859_1517807326286§ionId=28477§ionno=200&orderno=231", "https://parivahan.gov.in/", "https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" }, { "slug": "rajasthan", "name": "Rajasthan", "target_keyword": "rajasthan e challan", "portals": [ { "label": "NextGen eChallan – Challan Services (the portal that actually serves Rajasthan/RJ challans)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "National eChallan portal (MoRTH) – now redirects RJ users to NextGen", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Virtual Courts – Rajasthan (Traffic Department)", "url": "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Rajasthan Transport Department – Compounding Notifications (official fine schedule)", "url": "https://transport.rajasthan.gov.in/content/transportportal/en/transport/notifications1/CompoundingNotification.html", "scope": "check" } ], "check_steps": [ "Open the NextGen eChallan portal at https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services. Rajasthan is one of the states migrated to NextGen, so the older echallan.parivahan.gov.in search will not return RJ challans — that portal now carries a notice telling RJ users to come here.", "On the landing page choose the 'Check Pending Challan Status' service tile. The other tiles are Pay Challan, Download Challan Print, Download Payment Receipt, Check Pending Transaction, Raise Grievance and Check Grievance Status.", "Pick your search type. The form opens on Challan Number by default; you can switch to Vehicle Number, DL Number or Mobile Number.", "Enter the identifier in the box ('Enter Challan Number' / 'Enter Vehicle Number' / 'Enter DL Number'). A Vehicle Number search may additionally ask for Registration Date, and a DL Number search for Date of Birth — both have a calendar picker beside the field.", "Type the code from the captcha image into 'Enter Captcha'. It is numeric and six digits; use the refresh icon ('Click to refresh captcha') if the image is unreadable.", "Tick the disclaimer box, 'I have read the above disclaimer and agree to proceed further.' The form will not submit until this is checked.", "Press GET DETAILS. Results appear in a table with Violator Name, DL/RC Number, Challan Number, State, Challan Date, Amount, Status, Challan Print and Payment columns." ], "pay_steps": [ "In the results table read the Status column first. Only challans still shown as pending can be paid on the portal — anything already referred to court shows court details in place of a Pay button.", "Click Pay against the challan you want to clear (or start from the 'Pay Challan' tile on the landing page).", "If the portal asks you to verify a mobile number, enter a 10-digit Indian number beginning 6-9, press Send OTP, then enter the 6-digit OTP and press Verify.", "Complete the transaction on the NIC payment gateway using net banking, a debit or credit card, or UPI.", "Let the 'Your payment is verifying' step finish on its own — closing or refreshing the browser here is what leaves transactions stuck in a pending state.", "Download proof of payment through the 'Download Payment Receipt' service, and keep the challan print as well.", "If money was debited but the challan still shows unpaid, use the 'Check Pending Transaction' service to reconcile it before paying a second time." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "mParivahan — the official MoRTH/NIC mobile app (official page: https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/), available for Android and iOS, is the nationally documented app route for checking challan status against a vehicle or driving licence. The NextGen eChallan web app is built from the same NIC codebase.", "No Rajasthan-specific SMS challan-enquiry service is documented on any official Rajasthan Government or Parivahan page — treat any SMS shortcode circulating on third-party sites as unverified." ], "court_challan_process": "Rajasthan is a live Virtual Court state. vcourts.gov.in lists \"Rajasthan(Traffic Department)\" in its Select Department dropdown (internal code 9~RJVC01), so traffic challans referred to court are largely handled online. Referral is not optional for certain offences: anything Rajasthan has not notified as compoundable cannot be settled on the e-challan portal at all. The two that matter most to ordinary drivers are drunk driving under section 185 — which section 200 of the MV Act excludes from compounding altogether — and dangerous driving under section 184, which the 2019 amendment made compoundable \"only to the extent of use of handheld communication devices\". So a red-light or rash-driving charge framed under section 184 in Rajasthan goes to a court, not to a payment page. On the NextGen portal such a challan stops showing a Pay button and instead displays a \"Sent To Court Data\" block with Sent To Court On, Court Name, Court Address and Amount. If the Virtual Court could not consume the case the portal shows \"Transferred to Regular Court\" with a CL Number and Court Number, and gives the reason — the portal's own listed reasons include an invalid or missing mobile number and a payment already initiated. To settle online, go to vcourts.gov.in, choose Rajasthan(Traffic Department) from the Select Department dropdown and press Proceed Now, then search by Challan/Vehicle Number, CNR, party name or mobile number, open the case, verify the OTP and pay; payment disposes the case immediately. If you want to contest rather than pay, the portal is explicit that for adjudication the litigant may have to appear in person or through a lawyer. Separately, traffic matters already pending in regular courts can be taken up and compromised at the National Lok Adalats that the Rajasthan State Legal Services Authority organises statewide several times a year; a Lok Adalat award is deemed a civil-court decree and is final, with no appeal.", "payment_methods": [ "Net banking", "Debit card", "Credit card", "UPI" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "eChallan national helpdesk (email) — for technical problems with the e-challan portal", "value": "helpdesk-echallan@gov.in" }, { "label": "eChallan national helpdesk (phone), 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM", "value": "0120-4925505" }, { "label": "Rajasthan Transport Department, Parivahan Bhawan, Sahkar Marg, Jaipur-302005", "value": "0141-2740021, 0141-2850600 (fax 0141-2740177)" }, { "label": "Rajasthan Transport Department (email)", "value": "transport@rajasthan.gov.in" }, { "label": "Nodal Officer ATC (IT), Transport and Road Safety Department, Rajasthan", "value": "0141-2850605, addl.it.tdr@rajasthan.gov.in" }, { "label": "Police control room / emergency", "value": "100 or 112" } ], "quirks": [ "Rajasthan has migrated to the NextGen eChallan portal. echallan.parivahan.gov.in now carries a notice listing RJ among the states whose challans must be checked and paid at echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services — searching the old portal for an RJ challan is a dead end.", "echallanjaipur.rajasthan.gov.in, still named by many third-party guides as the Jaipur traffic challan site, does not serve traffic challans at all. Checked on 12 August 2026 it returns an RVPNL (Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam) vendor 'Bill Tracking Portal' login screen.", "The operative fine schedule is the Transport Department notification dated 24 February 2021 (No. F.7(47)/Pari/Rules/H.Q./87/part/1/1), which expressly supersedes the 8 July 2020 notification (S.O.295). The department's Compounding Notification page still lists 2016, 2020 and 2021 side by side with no indication of which is current.", "The 2021 notification cut several 2020 amounts sharply — refusing to submit a vehicle for weighing (s.194(2)) fell from ₹40,000 to ₹10,000, failing to give way to an ambulance or fire vehicle (s.194E) from ₹10,000 to ₹1,000, triple-riding (s.194C) from ₹1,000 to ₹100, and overloading (s.194(1)) from ₹20,000 plus ₹2,000/tonne to ₹5,000 plus ₹1,000/tonne. Any chart built from the 2020 notification overstates these.", "Rajasthan compounds several offences far below the central figures. The starkest is emission/PUC and road-safety standards under s.190(2) at ₹500–₹2,000 against a central ceiling of ₹10,000, and general rule violations under s.177 at ₹100 (two/three-wheeler) or ₹200 against the central ₹500 first offence.", "Repeat over-speeding cannot be bought off in Rajasthan. The schedule sets ₹1,000 (LMV) and ₹2,000 (medium/heavy) for a first offence but for a second or subsequent one says the driving licence 'shall be impounded as per the provisions of section 206(4)' — no money figure at all.", "Who may compound is restricted. Police and Traffic Police officers are expressly not authorised to compound offences under s.182A(1),(3),(4), s.182B, s.192A, s.194(1) read with ss.113-114, s.194(1A) and s.194(2). Rank thresholds also differ by area: Head Constable inside Jaipur and Jodhpur Commissionerate areas, Assistant Sub-Inspector elsewhere, and Motor Vehicle Sub-Inspector for Transport Department officers statewide.", "Drunk driving (s.185) does not appear in Rajasthan's compounding schedule and is excluded from s.200 of the MV Act, so it can never be paid off online — it is a court matter. The same is true of dangerous driving under s.184 except the handheld-phone limb.", "The Jodhpur Police 'Traffic Penalty Amount' page (jodhpurpolice.rajasthan.gov.in/traffic_penalty) loads but renders with no penalty table at all — a stale official page that search engines still surface as a fine schedule.", "NIC has published an official warning that echallanparivahan.in is a fake lookalike site collecting payments for non-existent violations, and the NextGen portal carries a standing notice that it never asks for passwords, OTPs or payment details by call, email or link.", "Two small UI traps on NextGen: the search form will not submit until you tick the disclaimer checkbox, and the captcha is numeric (six digits) rather than alphanumeric." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Why can't I find my Rajasthan challan on echallan.parivahan.gov.in?", "a": "Because Rajasthan has been migrated. The old national portal now shows a notice listing RJ among the states whose challans must be checked and paid on the NextGen eChallan portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services. Search there with your challan, vehicle or DL number instead." }, { "q": "Is echallanjaipur.rajasthan.gov.in still the Jaipur traffic challan website?", "a": "No. Checked on 12 August 2026, that address serves an RVPNL (Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam) vendor 'Bill Tracking Portal' login page and has nothing to do with traffic challans, even though many third-party guides still recommend it. Use the NextGen eChallan portal." }, { "q": "How much is the fine for driving without a PUC certificate in Rajasthan?", "a": "Rajasthan's notified compounding amount under section 190(2) is ₹500 for a two/three-wheeler or e-rickshaw, ₹1,000 for other non-transport vehicles, ₹1,500 for LMV transport and ₹2,000 for medium/heavy transport, doubling on a repeat offence. That is well below the central ceiling of ₹10,000." }, { "q": "Can I pay a drunk-driving challan online in Rajasthan?", "a": "No. Section 185 is not among the offences that section 200 of the Motor Vehicles Act allows to be compounded, and it does not appear in Rajasthan's compounding schedule at all, so the case must be decided by a court. Track it on vcourts.gov.in under Rajasthan(Traffic Department)." }, { "q": "What happens if I simply ignore a Rajasthan e-challan?", "a": "It gets referred to court. On the NextGen portal the Pay button disappears and the record instead shows a 'Sent To Court Data' block with the date sent, court name and court address — after which you settle it through the Virtual Court at vcourts.gov.in or in the regular court named on the record." }, { "q": "Why is the amount on my challan lower than the fine list I read online?", "a": "Most online charts quote the central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 figures. Rajasthan notified its own compounding schedule on 24 February 2021, and it is lower for several offences including PUC, insurance, mobile-phone use and registration. The e-challan itself states the amount actually payable." }, { "q": "I was caught over-speeding a second time — what will I have to pay?", "a": "Nothing, in the sense of a compounding fee: Rajasthan's schedule sets ₹1,000 (LMV) or ₹2,000 (medium/heavy) only for a first offence, and for a second or subsequent one it directs that the driving licence be impounded under section 206(4) of the Motor Vehicles Act instead." } ], "fine_overrides": { "driving-without-puc": { "amount_text": "₹500 for a two/three-wheeler or e-rickshaw, ₹1,000 for other non-transport vehicles, ₹1,500 for LMV transport and ₹2,000 for medium/heavy transport; doubled on a repeat offence (₹1,000 / ₹2,000 / ₹3,000 / ₹4,000).", "source": "https://transport.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/transport/transport-dept/pdf/notificationrule/C%20F%20notification%2024.02.2021.pdf" }, "driving-without-insurance": { "amount_text": "₹1,000 for a two-wheeler or three-wheeler and ₹2,000 for any other vehicle. Rajasthan notifies no separate higher figure for a repeat offence.", "source": "https://transport.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/transport/transport-dept/pdf/notificationrule/C%20F%20notification%2024.02.2021.pdf" }, "driving-without-rc": { "amount_text": "₹2,000 for a two/three-wheeler or agricultural tractor-trailer and ₹5,000 for a passenger or goods vehicle on a first offence; ₹5,000 and ₹10,000 respectively on a repeat offence.", "source": "https://transport.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/transport/transport-dept/pdf/notificationrule/C%20F%20notification%2024.02.2021.pdf" }, "mobile-phone-while-driving": { "amount_text": "₹1,000 for a first offence and ₹10,000 for a subsequent one — Rajasthan compounds section 184 only for use of a handheld communication device.", "source": "https://transport.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/transport/transport-dept/pdf/notificationrule/C%20F%20notification%2024.02.2021.pdf" }, "dangerous-driving-red-light": { "amount_text": "Rajasthan compounds section 184 only for handheld-phone use, so a red-light charge framed under section 184 must go to court; signal disobedience booked under section 177 compounds at ₹100 (two/three-wheeler, e-rickshaw) or ₹200 (other vehicles).", "source": "https://transport.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/transport/transport-dept/pdf/notificationrule/C%20F%20notification%2024.02.2021.pdf" } }, "sources": [ "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/check-challan-status", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/assets/i18n/en.json", "https://vcourts.gov.in/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/index.php?p=home/index&state_cd=9&est_code=RJVC01", "https://transport.rajasthan.gov.in/content/transportportal/en/transport/notifications1/CompoundingNotification.html", "https://transport.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/transport/transport-dept/pdf/notificationrule/C%20F%20notification%2024.02.2021.pdf", "https://transport.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/transport/transport-dept/pdf/notificationrule/penalty%20notification.pdf", "https://transport.rajasthan.gov.in/content/transportportal/en/transport/RajasthanActAndrules.html.html", "https://transport.rajasthan.gov.in/content/transportportal/en/transport/contactus.html", "https://egazette.gov.in/WriteReadData/2019/210413.pdf", "https://echallanjaipur.rajasthan.gov.in/", "https://jodhpurpolice.rajasthan.gov.in/traffic_penalty", "https://police.rajasthan.gov.in/", "https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/", "https://rajasthan.nalsa.gov.in/mega-national-lok-adalat/" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" }, { "slug": "tamil-nadu", "name": "Tamil Nadu", "target_keyword": "tn e challan", "portals": [ { "label": "NextGen eChallan – eChallan Services (the portal that serves Tamil Nadu)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan – Check Pending Challan Status", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "Virtual Courts – select \"Tamil Nadu(Traffic Department)\" for challans sent to court", "url": "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Legacy MoRTH eChallan portal (no longer serves TN – its notice board redirects TN to NextGen)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "eChallan grievance / helpdesk contact page", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/grievance", "scope": "check" } ], "check_steps": [ "Open https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services — Tamil Nadu challans live on the NextGen portal, NOT on the older echallan.parivahan.gov.in site. The legacy site's own notice board lists TN among the states that must use NextGen.", "Click the \"Check Pending Challan Status\" tile (first card on the services grid).", "Choose one of the three tabs across the top of the form: \"Challan Number\", \"Vehicle Number\" or \"DL Number\".", "On the \"Challan Number\" tab just type the challan number. On the \"Vehicle Number\" tab NextGen asks for TWO things — \"Vehicle Number\" and \"Registration Date\" in DD/MM/YYYY (take it off your RC). This replaces the last-5-digits-of-chassis/engine check the old portal used.", "Type the code shown in the \"Enter Captcha\" box. There is a speaker icon to hear it and a circular-arrow icon to generate a new one if it is unreadable.", "Click \"GET DETAILS\". The results table shows violator name, DL/RC number, challan number, challan date, state, department, amount and status, with links to print the challan.", "If nothing is returned, re-check the registration date, or try the Challan Number tab using the number in the SMS/notice — vehicle-number lookups fail if the RC date does not match Vahan exactly." ], "pay_steps": [ "From https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services open the \"Pay Challan\" tile — or simply use the pay action against a challan row you already pulled up via \"Check Pending Challan Status\".", "Identify the challan the same way as for checking: Challan Number, or Vehicle Number plus Registration Date (DD/MM/YYYY), or DL Number, then clear the captcha.", "Select the challan(s) you want to settle and proceed — the portal hands you off to the government payment gateway.", "Complete the payment on the gateway and let the browser return to the portal on its own; do not close the tab mid-transaction.", "Save proof using the \"Download Payment Receipt\" tile, and \"Download Challan Print\" if you need the challan copy itself.", "If money was debited but the challan still shows as pending, use \"Check Pending Transaction\" (linked from the portal's Notice Board and Important Links) to reconcile it BEFORE paying a second time.", "If the challan no longer appears on the eChallan portal it has probably been referred to the Virtual Court — settle it at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ under \"Tamil Nadu(Traffic Department)\" instead." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "NextGen mParivahan mobile app (NIC / MoRTH) — the same eChallan back-end as the NextGen web portal, for checking and paying challans. The NextGen portal carries a standing warning to \"beware of fraudulent websites and mobile apps impersonating our echallan services\" and to use only the official website/app, so install only the NIC-published listing.", "e-challans generated by camera enforcement are notified to the violator on the registered mobile number; the challan number in that SMS is the fastest input on the portal's \"Challan Number\" tab.", "No Tamil Nadu-specific SMS short-code or state challan app was found documented on any official Tamil Nadu Government, TN Police or TN Transport page." ], "court_challan_process": "Tamil Nadu is live on the national Virtual Courts platform. The department dropdown at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ carries exactly one Tamil Nadu entry — \"Tamil Nadu(Traffic Department)\" (court code TNVC01, state code 10). There is no Tamil Nadu Transport-Department virtual court, so RTO/check-post challans issued by Motor Vehicles Inspectors have no virtual-court route and follow the ordinary magistrate process.\n\nNIC's own eChallan documentation states that an eChallan left unpaid is automatically forwarded to the Virtual Court after 90 days under the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, where adjudication proceedings begin. Once that happens the challan stops being settleable on the eChallan portal and must be dealt with at vcourts.gov.in.\n\nTo settle it: open https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/, pick \"Tamil Nadu(Traffic Department)\", click \"Proceed Now\", and on the search screen choose one of four tabs — \"Mobile Number\", \"CNR Number\", \"Party Name\" or \"Challan/Vehicle No.\" — fill the identifier, clear the captcha (audio and refresh icons are provided) and click \"Submit\". You can then plead guilty and pay the fine online through the ePay gateway; vcourts states the payment APIs are shared by the High Courts and the state Finance Departments. The case is disposed on payment and the receipt can be downloaded and reprinted.\n\nIf you dispute the challan, the Virtual Court platform itself warns that \"for adjudication purpose the Litigant may have to appear in person or through the Lawyer in the Court\" — a contested Tamil Nadu traffic case therefore moves to the jurisdictional magistrate rather than being decided online.\n\nTwo Tamil Nadu-specific points matter. First, drunk driving under s.185 is not compoundable at all — it is absent from Tamil Nadu's Table-II compounding schedule in G.O.(Ms) No.758 and is outside the s.200 MV Act compoundable list — so it is always a court matter, never an online settlement. Second, G.O.(Ms) No.758 directs the enforcement officer to seize the driving licence and forward it to the licensing authority for disqualification or revocation proceedings under s.19 where the offence falls under ss.183, 184, 185, 189, 190, 194C, 194D or 194E, so a licence action can run alongside the court case. Lok Adalat settlement of pending traffic cases is organised periodically by the legal services authorities through the district courts, but no Tamil Nadu-specific Lok Adalat schedule or discount was found on an official page and none should be assumed.", "payment_methods": [ "Online on the NextGen eChallan portal (echallan.parivahan.nic.in) — select the challan, then complete payment on the government payment gateway the portal redirects you to", "Online through the NextGen mParivahan app, which uses the same eChallan back-end", "Online through the Virtual Courts ePay gateway at vcourts.gov.in for challans already referred to the Tamil Nadu Traffic Department virtual court", "On-the-spot compounding fee collected by the enforcing officer — G.O.(Ms) No.758 expressly directs \"Collection of Compounding Fees by cashless transaction through Electronically/E-challan\" by the authorised Police and Transport officers, relying on s.211A MV Act for electronic payment" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "Tamil Nadu Police — To Report Traffic Violation", "value": "103" }, { "label": "Tamil Nadu Police — Police Control Room", "value": "100" }, { "label": "Ambulance (Tamil Nadu Police helpline list)", "value": "108" }, { "label": "Women Help Line (Tamil Nadu Police helpline list)", "value": "1091" }, { "label": "Cyber Crime (Tamil Nadu Police helpline list)", "value": "1930" }, { "label": "National eChallan helpdesk (MoRTH/NIC) — technical issues with the eChallan portal", "value": "0120-4925505 (6:00 AM – 10:00 PM)" }, { "label": "National eChallan helpdesk email", "value": "helpdesk-echallan[at]gov[dot]in" } ], "quirks": [ "Tamil Nadu has MIGRATED to the NextGen eChallan portal. The legacy MoRTH portal's notice board says verbatim: \"NOTE : Please check and pay your challans of AN, AR, AS, BR, CH, CG, DD, GA, HP, HR, JH, JK, KA, LA, MH, ML, MN, MZ, NL, PB, PY, SK, TN, UK, WB, RJ, GJ States on NextGen eChallan Portal\". Using echallan.parivahan.gov.in for a TN challan will simply not find it.", "Stale official page: the Tamil Nadu Transport Department's own site (tnsta.gov.in) still advertises \"Pay your fine/traffic penalty here\" pointing at the OLD portal, https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan. That link is out of date for TN.", "There is NO Tamil Nadu state e-challan portal. echallan.tnpolice.gov.in — quoted by many guides — does not resolve in DNS at all (ENOTFOUND).", "The Tamil Nadu Police citizen portal moved from eservices.tnpolice.gov.in (which now 302s) to police.tn.gov.in. The new portal's Citizen Services menu contains NO traffic-challan payment option — Free Services are complaint/FIR/CSR/vehicle verification etc., Paid Services are only Lost Document Report, Road Accident Documents and Police Verification Report. The widely-repeated \"TN Police site → e-payments for traffic challan\" route is dead.", "NextGen's \"Vehicle Number\" lookup asks for the vehicle's \"Registration Date\" (DD/MM/YYYY) as the second field — NOT the last 5 digits of chassis/engine number that the old parivahan.gov.in portal used. Guides written for the old portal will send you looking for the wrong number.", "The NextGen portal's \"Contact Us\" button is a dead link (href=\"javascript:void(0)\") and the portal publishes no helpline of its own; the only eChallan helpdesk phone/email is still on the legacy portal's grievance page.", "Tamil Nadu's compounding schedule is Table-II of G.O.(Ms) No.758, Home (Transport-VII) Department, dated 19.10.2022, in force from 20 October 2022, superseding Home Department Notification No. II(2)/HO/519/2011 (Gazette, 28 December 2011). Fine charts published before late 2022 are obsolete for TN.", "Where the central Act gives a RANGE, Tamil Nadu notified a single compounding figure at or near the floor — s.183(1)(i) LMV over-speeding ₹1,000, s.184 dangerous driving ₹1,000, s.192(1) no registration ₹2,500. The payable e-challan amount is therefore often lower than the \"up to ₹5,000\" style figures quoted in news charts.", "Tamil Nadu's Table-II lumps \"Driving dangerously (rash and negligent driving)\" and \"Use of handheld communication devices while driving\" into a single s.184 entry, even though s.200 MV Act makes only the handheld-device limb of s.184 compoundable. A pure dangerous-driving or red-light case can still be pushed to court rather than compounded.", "Red-light and signage violations are frequently booked under s.177 as \"Violation of mandatory traffic signs\" — ₹500 first offence, ₹1,500 second and subsequent in TN's Table-II — rather than under s.184, so the amount on the challan depends on the section the officer selected.", "Section 185 (drunk driving) appears nowhere in Tamil Nadu's compounding schedule and is not compoundable under s.200 MV Act, so it can never be settled on the e-challan portal — it goes to court.", "G.O.(Ms) No.758 records the Attorney General of India's view, conveyed by MoRTH, that a State Government \"cannot pass any law / take executive action to lower the penalty / fine below that prescribed under the statutory provisions of the Motor vehicles Act, unless the assent of the President is obtained\". This is why TN's schedule never dips below the central minimum.", "Only one Tamil Nadu department exists on Virtual Courts — \"Tamil Nadu(Traffic Department)\" (TNVC01). Unlike Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Manipur, Kerala and Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu has no Transport-Department virtual court, so transport/check-post challans have no virtual-court settlement route.", "vcourts deep links are session-bound: pasting a ?p=casestatus/index&state_cd=10&court_code=TNVC01 style URL bounces you back to the home page. You must select the department from the dropdown and click \"Proceed Now\".", "Under Table-I of the G.O., police officers not below Special Sub-Inspector rank (including Traffic Police) compound offences across the whole state except Transport Department check posts, while Motor Vehicles Inspectors handle the check posts — so the issuing agency shown on the challan differs by where you were stopped." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Which website do I use for a Tamil Nadu e-challan — echallan.parivahan.gov.in or the NextGen site?", "a": "The NextGen site, https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in. The older echallan.parivahan.gov.in portal's own notice board lists TN among the states whose challans must be checked and paid on the NextGen eChallan Portal, so a TN challan simply will not appear on the old site. Note that the Tamil Nadu Transport Department's site (tnsta.gov.in) still links to the old portal — that link is out of date." }, { "q": "Why does the portal ask for a \"Registration Date\" when I search by vehicle number?", "a": "NextGen verifies you on the Vehicle Number tab using the vehicle's registration date in DD/MM/YYYY format, printed on your RC. This replaced the last-5-digits-of-chassis-or-engine-number check used by the old parivahan.gov.in portal, which is why older how-to guides tell you to look for the wrong number. The Challan Number and DL Number tabs do not need it." }, { "q": "How much is the helmet and seat-belt fine in Tamil Nadu?", "a": "₹1,000 each. Tamil Nadu's compounding schedule — Table-II of G.O.(Ms) No.758, Home (Transport-VII) Department, dated 19.10.2022 and in force from 20 October 2022 — sets s.194D (protective headgear for rider and pillion) at ₹1,000 and s.194B(1) (seat belt, driver and passengers) at ₹1,000. Not securing a child under 14 with a belt or child restraint under s.194B(2) is also ₹1,000. These match the central figures, so there is no Tamil Nadu discount." }, { "q": "Can I settle a drunk-driving challan online in Tamil Nadu?", "a": "No. Section 185 does not appear anywhere in Tamil Nadu's Table-II compounding schedule, and s.200 of the Motor Vehicles Act does not list s.185 among compoundable offences, so it cannot be paid off on the e-challan portal at all. The case has to be decided by a court. G.O.(Ms) No.758 additionally directs the officer to seize the driving licence in s.185 cases and forward it to the licensing authority for disqualification or revocation proceedings under s.19." }, { "q": "What does over-speeding actually cost in Tamil Nadu?", "a": "Tamil Nadu notified a flat figure rather than the central range. Under Table-II it is ₹1,000 for a light motor vehicle (s.183(1)(i)) and ₹2,000 for a medium or heavy goods or passenger vehicle (s.183(1)(ii)). Because the state pinned the amount at the bottom of the central band, the payable e-challan is often lower than the \"up to\" figures quoted in general traffic-fine charts." }, { "q": "What happens if I never pay my Tamil Nadu e-challan?", "a": "NIC's eChallan documentation states that an unpaid eChallan is automatically forwarded to the Virtual Court after 90 days under the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, at which point adjudication proceedings begin. From then on the challan is no longer settleable on the eChallan portal — you have to deal with it at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ under \"Tamil Nadu(Traffic Department)\", where you can plead guilty and pay online, or contest it and appear before the jurisdictional magistrate." }, { "q": "I paid but the challan still shows as pending — what do I do?", "a": "Do not pay again immediately. The NextGen portal has a dedicated \"Check Pending Transaction\" service, linked both from the Notice Board and the Important Links panel, for payments that are pending, stuck or debited from your account without the challan clearing. Use that to reconcile the transaction first. If it stays unresolved, the eChallan helpdesk is 0120-4925505 (6:00 AM – 10:00 PM) or helpdesk-echallan[at]gov[dot]in, listed on the legacy portal's grievance page." }, { "q": "Are camera-generated challans valid in Tamil Nadu, and what can cameras book me for?", "a": "Yes. MoRTH notified rule 167A of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules via G.S.R. 575(E) dated 11 August 2021 for electronic monitoring and enforcement, covering speed cameras, CCTV, speed guns, body-worn and dashboard cameras, ANPR and weigh-in-motion machines. Footage can support challans for over-speeding (ss.112/183), unauthorised parking (s.122), safety measures for riders and pillion (s.128), no helmet (s.129), the s.184 group including red-light jumping and handheld phone use, overloading (s.194(1)/(1A)), no seat belt (s.194B) and failure to give way to emergency vehicles (s.194E). Each electronic challan must carry photographic evidence, the device measurement, date/time/place and a s.65B Evidence Act certificate." } ], "fine_overrides": { "overspeeding": { "amount_text": "₹1,000 for a light motor vehicle (s.183(1)(i)) and ₹2,000 for a medium or heavy goods/passenger vehicle (s.183(1)(ii)) — Tamil Nadu notified flat figures instead of the central range.", "source": "https://tnsta.gov.in/whatsnew/whatsnew_tn_9DFKSOo_2023_03_27.pdf" }, "dangerous-driving-red-light": { "amount_text": "₹1,000 for the first offence and ₹10,000 for a second or subsequent offence under s.184. A red-light or signage violation booked instead under s.177 compounds at ₹500 first / ₹1,500 repeat.", "source": "https://tnsta.gov.in/whatsnew/whatsnew_tn_9DFKSOo_2023_03_27.pdf" }, "mobile-phone-while-driving": { "amount_text": "₹1,000 for the first offence and ₹10,000 for a second or subsequent offence — Tamil Nadu lists handheld-communication-device use together with dangerous driving in one s.184 entry.", "source": "https://tnsta.gov.in/whatsnew/whatsnew_tn_9DFKSOo_2023_03_27.pdf" }, "driving-without-rc": { "amount_text": "₹2,500 for the first offence and ₹5,000 for a second or subsequent offence under s.192(1). Merely failing to produce the RC on demand is a separate, lower ₹500 offence under s.177.", "source": "https://tnsta.gov.in/whatsnew/whatsnew_tn_9DFKSOo_2023_03_27.pdf" } }, "sources": [ "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/grievance", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan", "https://tnsta.gov.in/", "https://tnsta.gov.in/whatsnew/whatsnew_tn_9DFKSOo_2023_03_27.pdf", "https://tnsta.gov.in/whatsnew/whatsnew_tn_2asgRtT_2024_07_05.pdf", "https://vcourts.gov.in/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/index.php", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/main.php", "https://www.police.tn.gov.in/citizenportal/pages/helpline", "https://eservices.tnpolice.gov.in/CCTNSNICSDC/", "https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1747285", "https://informatics.nic.in/files/websites/april-2025/echallan.php" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" }, { "slug": "telangana", "name": "Telangana", "target_keyword": "e challan ts", "portals": [ { "label": "Telangana Police Integrated e-Challan System (public view)", "url": "https://echallan.tspolice.gov.in/publicview/", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "MoRTH e-challan portal — challan details", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Hyderabad Traffic Police — e-challan status and wrong-challan reporting", "url": "https://htp.gov.in/", "scope": "check" } ], "check_steps": [ "Go to https://echallan.tspolice.gov.in/. It is only a redirect page — the working portal is https://echallan.tspolice.gov.in/publicview/, titled 'Telangana Police Integrated e-Challan System'.", "Stay on the first tab, 'Vehicle Number'. It holds three independent searches stacked on one page: Vehicle No, Licence No, and Challan NO/Mobile No.", "Type the number into the relevant box, solve the small arithmetic captcha in the 'Enter Answer' field and click GO. Pending challans load with the challan number, date, section and amount.", "Use the 'Seizure (e-39b)' tab if a document or the vehicle was seized, and the 'Payment Receipt' tab (search by Transaction reference No, or by Licence No with date of birth, or by mobile number) to pull an old receipt again.", "Check the 'DL Penalty Points' tab to see penalty points recorded against a driving licence — Telangana runs this alongside the money fine.", "As a cross-check, run the same vehicle or DL number on the MoRTH portal at https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan; Telangana is not among the states routed to the NextGen portal, so it is still served from echallan.parivahan.gov.in." ], "pay_steps": [ "On https://echallan.tspolice.gov.in/publicview/ tick the challans you want to clear in the result list.", "Click the Netbanking option. The portal's own note tells you to look for your bank in the list of banks under each gateway and pick the gateway that carries your bank before proceeding.", "Note the Reference number the portal generates before you are handed to the gateway — you need it if the payment goes wrong.", "Pay by internet banking, credit card, debit card, UPI ID or QR code; all gateways on the portal accept these.", "If money is debited but the challan is still showing, use the 'Transaction status' button beside 'Make Payment'. The portal says to wait one day, and that if the challan is still uncleared the amount is refunded within 7 working days.", "Spot challans carry a ₹5 user charge added at the payment page — the total shown will be slightly higher than the challan amount." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "mParivahan, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways citizen app, listed on https://parivahan.gov.in/ under Other Products & Services and reachable at https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/.", "'Register For Violation Alerts' on the Telangana portal — submit owner name, vehicle number, mobile number and captcha, and an SMS is sent to that mobile whenever a challan is booked on the vehicle.", "Genuine Telangana e-challan SMS comes only from the sender header 'ECHALN-*'. The portal carries an explicit warning, in English and Telugu, to trust nothing else and to use only echallan.tspolice.gov.in.", "Keep the mobile number on the vehicle and licence current, otherwise no alert reaches you — https://vahan.parivahan.gov.in/mobileupdate/ for the RC, https://sarathi.parivahan.gov.in/sarathiservice/mobNumUpdpub.do for the DL, and https://tgtransport.net/TGCFSTONLINE/OnlineTransactions/UpdateMobileNumber.aspx for the state transport record — all three are linked from the portal itself." ], "court_challan_process": "Telangana settles compoundable offences entirely on its own portal — you select the challan and pay, and there is no court step. What Telangana does not have is a Virtual Court. The national Virtual Courts platform at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ lists 31 traffic and transport departments across other states and union territories, from Assam to West Bengal, and Telangana appears nowhere in that list, so a Telangana challan cannot be paid or contested online through vcourts.gov.in the way a Delhi one can. That matters most for the offences Section 200 of the Motor Vehicles Act does not allow to be compounded at all: drunken driving under Section 185, and every limb of dangerous driving under Section 184 except clause (c) of the Explanation (use of handheld communication devices). Those are prosecuted before the jurisdictional magistrate's court and the person named has to appear; the e-challan portal will not show a payable amount for them. If you believe a challan was wrongly booked, the portal has a Complaints tab and a User Feedback form with fixed reasons — Manual Error, Double Challan, Fake Vehicle, Theft Vehicle — verified by OTP, and Hyderabad Traffic Police separately directs wrong-challan clarifications to the Traffic Cell at Road No. 12, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, or online through the same public view portal.", "payment_methods": [ "Net banking", "Credit card", "Debit card", "UPI ID", "UPI QR code" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "Hyderabad Police Commissionerate", "value": "040-27852721 / 040-27852772 — Commissioner of Police Building, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad 500029; Traffic Cell at Road No. 12, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034" }, { "label": "Cyberabad Police Commissionerate", "value": "040-27853416 — 2-48/P/21, Old Mumbai Highway, Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500032" }, { "label": "Malkajgiri Police Commissionerate", "value": "040-27853000 — DCP Traffic-1 premises, Court Compound, Sardar Patel Road, Secunderabad 500003" }, { "label": "Future City Police Commissionerate", "value": "+91 8712665328 — NH-44 Bangalore Highway, behind Shamshabad Police Station, Peddashapur Village, Shamshabad Mandal 501218" }, { "label": "e-challan helpdesk (Hyderabad)", "value": "echallanhelpdesk.hyd@gmail.com" }, { "label": "e-challan helpdesk (Cyberabad)", "value": "echallancybhelpdesk@gmail.com" }, { "label": "e-challan helpdesk (Rachakonda)", "value": "echallanrckhelpdesk@gmail.com" }, { "label": "National e-challan helpdesk", "value": "0120-4925505, 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM — helpdesk-echallan@gov.in" } ], "quirks": [ "https://echallan.tspolice.gov.in/ is a bare redirect page. Every real service lives at https://echallan.tspolice.gov.in/publicview/, so bookmark that.", "Telangana is not on the national Virtual Courts platform. The vcourts.gov.in department dropdown carries 31 departments across other states and has no Telangana entry at all.", "Telangana is also not on the NextGen e-challan portal. The MoRTH site routes 27 states and UTs to echallan.parivahan.nic.in and Telangana is not one of them, so Telangana challans stay on echallan.parivahan.gov.in.", "The captcha on the Telangana portal is an arithmetic question, not a distorted image — the field is literally labelled 'Enter Answer' and takes a two-digit number.", "The portal's Contact Us panel lists four commissionerates — Hyderabad, Cyberabad, Malkajgiri and Future City — while the refund text on the same page still names a Rachakonda helpdesk address (echallanrckhelpdesk@gmail.com). If you are unsure which office holds your challan, start from the one named on the challan itself.", "Hyderabad Traffic Police's own 'Road Rules' page at https://htp.gov.in/road_rules.html still lists pre-2019 penalties (₹500 for driving without a licence under Section 181, ₹1,000 for no insurance under Section 196, ₹2,000 for no registration under Section 192(1), ₹200 for Section 177 offences). Those figures were superseded by the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 with effect from 1 September 2019 — go by the amount printed on the challan, not that page.", "Spot challans attract ₹5 extra as user charges, stated on the portal's Netbanking help panel.", "The portal warns in Telugu and English about fake e-challan websites and apps, and says to trust SMS only from the header 'ECHALN-*'." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "What is the official website to check a TS e challan?", "a": "https://echallan.tspolice.gov.in, which redirects to the public view at https://echallan.tspolice.gov.in/publicview/. The Telangana Police carry a standing warning on that page about fake e-challan websites and mobile apps, and ask citizens to use only this domain and to trust SMS only from the sender header 'ECHALN-*'." }, { "q": "Can I search a Telangana challan by mobile number instead of vehicle number?", "a": "Yes. The first tab of the public view portal holds three searches: Vehicle No, Licence No, and a combined Challan NO/Mobile No box. Each has its own arithmetic captcha and GO button, so you can pull up challans against the mobile number registered on the vehicle without knowing the challan number." }, { "q": "What are DL penalty points in Telangana?", "a": "The Telangana e-challan portal carries a dedicated 'DL Penalty Points' tab where you enter a licence number and date of birth to see the points recorded against that licence. It sits alongside the money fine, so a Telangana challan can affect the licence record even after the amount has been paid." }, { "q": "My payment went through but the challan is still showing. What now?", "a": "The portal's own note says that if payment is debited but the challans are not cleared you should wait one day, and that if it is still uncleared the amount will be refunded within 7 working days. Before that, use the 'Transaction status' button beside 'Make Payment' with the reference number the portal generated, since a transaction that succeeded at the bank is reflected immediately and produces a receipt." }, { "q": "How do I report a wrong challan in Hyderabad?", "a": "Use the User Feedback form on the public view portal, which asks for name, mobile, email and a remark from a fixed list — Manual Error, Double Challan, Fake Vehicle or Theft Vehicle — and verifies you by OTP. Hyderabad Traffic Police also asks you to write to the Traffic Cell at Road No. 12, adjacent to Puri Jagannath Temple, Bhavani Nagar, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034, or phone 040-27852721 or 040-27852772." } ], "fine_overrides": {}, "sources": [ "https://echallan.tspolice.gov.in/", "https://echallan.tspolice.gov.in/publicview/", "https://htp.gov.in/", "https://htp.gov.in/road_rules.html", "https://htp.gov.in/wrong_challan.html", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/", "https://www.indiacode.nic.in/show-data?actid=AC_CEN_30_42_00009_198859_1517807326286§ionId=28477§ionno=200&orderno=231", "https://parivahan.gov.in/", "https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" }, { "slug": "uttar-pradesh", "name": "Uttar Pradesh", "target_keyword": "up e challan", "portals": [ { "label": "e-Challan (national MoRTH portal) — check & pay UP challans", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "e-Challan — check a pending / stuck payment transaction", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/payment-verification", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "e-Challan grievance & dispute ticket system", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/gsticket/", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "Virtual Courts (e-Challan) — select \"Uttar Pradesh(Traffic Department)\"", "url": "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/index.php", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "UP Transport Department — official e-Challan information page", "url": "https://uptransport.upsdc.gov.in/Pages/E_Challan", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "UP Police Traffic Directorate Portal — official challan links", "url": "https://uppolice.gov.in/article/en/traffic-directorate-portal", "scope": "check" } ], "check_steps": [ "Open the national e-challan portal at https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan. Uttar Pradesh is still served by this legacy portal — it has NOT migrated to the NextGen portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in.", "Fill in exactly one of the three boxes on the form: \"Challan Number\", \"Vehicle Number\" or \"DL Number\". The current UI does not ask for a chassis or engine number.", "Type the \"Captcha\" shown next to the boxes (use the refresh icon if it is unreadable) and click the \"Get Detail\" button.", "Read the results grid. Its columns are Violator Name, DL/RC Number, Challan No, Transaction ID, State, Department, Challan Date, Amount, Status, Payment Source, Challan Print, Receipt and Transaction History. A UP challan carries \"Uttar Pradesh\" in the State column.", "If the portal demands verification before showing details, choose one of \"By Mobile Number Registered at Vahan\", \"By Aadhaar OTP\" or \"Virtual Aadhaar ID\" — or the DL Number + Date of Birth route — click \"Send OTP\", enter the code and click \"Verify OTP\".", "Use \"Challan Print\" to download the challan PDF, \"Verify\"/\"Receipt\" to pull the payment receipt, and \"Transaction History\" to see earlier payment attempts on that challan.", "If a row carries a Virtual Court notice, cross-check the case at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/index.php by picking \"Uttar Pradesh(Traffic Department)\" and searching by Challan/Vehicle No., CNR, Mobile Number or Party Name." ], "pay_steps": [ "Look the challan up first on https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan (Challan Number / Vehicle Number / DL Number + Captcha, then \"Get Detail\"), then click \"Pay Now\" on the row you want to clear.", "If the challan has already been sent to court the portal shows this warning before it lets you pay: \"This challan has been forwarded to Virtual Court (https://vcourts.gov.in/), but still it can be paid here. If you choose to pay here, do not pay at Virtual Court.\" Tick the agreement box to continue — and pay in one place only, never both.", "Complete OTP verification when prompted — mobile number registered at Vahan, Aadhaar OTP, Virtual Aadhaar ID, or DL Number with Date of Birth — then click \"Verify OTP\".", "Finish the payment on the gateway that opens, then download proof through the \"Receipt\" / \"Verify\" link back in the results grid.", "If money is debited but the challan still reads \"Pending\", go to https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/payment-verification, search by Challan Number or Vehicle Number, then verify using \"Challan Number / GRN Number\" or \"Transaction ID\".", "Offences Uttar Pradesh has not made compoundable — drunk driving (s.185) and dangerous driving other than handheld phone use (s.184 a, b, d, e, f) — have no online payment route at all and must be settled before the court.", "To dispute rather than pay, raise a ticket at https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/gsticket/ with Challan Number, name, phone, vehicle/DL number, challan state, an issue category from the fixed list (e.g. \"Wrong Vehicle Number Entered By Officer\", \"Double Payment Done\", \"Virtual Court\") and a description of up to 500 characters, plus an optional JPEG/PNG image." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "mParivahan — the official MoRTH/NIC citizen app (https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/). It is the national app for RC/DL and Parivahan services; UP Police's own Traffic Directorate Portal page links to the Parivahan \"M Parivahan Mobile Number Updation\" service so that the number on record receives challan alerts.", "SMS and e-mail alerts generated by the e-Challan system itself to the mobile number registered in Vahan — the official NIC e-Challan user manual lists \"e-payment for services, alerts through SMS and emails\" as built-in functions. There is no separate UP-only challan-by-SMS shortcode documented on any official page.", "Update the mobile number linked to your vehicle at https://vahan.parivahan.gov.in/vahanservice/vahan/ui/otherservices/editMobileNumber.xhtml — this is the link UP Police publishes, and it is what makes app/SMS challan alerts and the \"By Mobile Number Registered at Vahan\" OTP route work." ], "court_challan_process": "Uttar Pradesh does have Virtual Court handling for traffic challans. On https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/index.php the department dropdown carries \"Uttar Pradesh(Traffic Department)\" (internal code UPVC01) — and only the Traffic Department, unlike states such as Assam, Gujarat and Uttarakhand which also list a Transport Department virtual court. An enforcement officer can forward a challan to court directly from the NIC e-Challan app, choosing the court from an assigned list. Once it is there, the accused searches the case on the Virtual Courts portal by Challan/Vehicle No., CNR, Mobile Number or Party Name, opens \"View\", and then either pleads guilty and pays or asks to contest. Either choice needs OTP verification. Choosing to pay routes you \"to the payment gateway through ePay for further processing\", and a receipt is issued immediately and can be re-printed later via Search Case > View > Reprint > OTP verification. Choosing to contest produces an acknowledgement naming the physical court and the date on which the case is listed. Two Uttar Pradesh specifics matter here. First, some offences can only end up in court: UP's own section-200 compounding schedule leaves out s.185 (drunk driving) and every clause of s.184 except (c), so red-light jumping and drink-driving cannot be compounded by the police at all. Second, a court-forwarded UP challan can still be paid on echallan.parivahan.gov.in, which warns explicitly that you must pay in one place only — either the e-challan portal or the Virtual Court, never both. Separately, challans already pending before a court can be taken up at National Lok Adalats run by the UP State Legal Services Authority and its 74 District Legal Services Authorities; NALSA's own disposal records show National Lok Adalat sittings held on 14 March 2026 and 9 May 2026. Any reduction is decided at the sitting itself and is not a fixed published percentage.", "payment_methods": [ "Online on https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan — select the challan, click \"Pay Now\", clear OTP verification if prompted, and complete payment on the integrated gateway (the gateway's card/net-banking/UPI choices only appear once a live challan is selected, so they could not be catalogued from a public page)", "Virtual Court ePay gateway at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/index.php for challans forwarded to court — pick \"Uttar Pradesh(Traffic Department)\", search the case, plead guilty and pay; a receipt is issued immediately", "On the spot to the compounding officer — UP's section-200 schedule authorises gazetted Civil/Traffic Police officers, Traffic Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors and all Police Station Officers within the district, plus ARTO/PTO-rank transport enforcement officers, to compound; such challans surface on the national portal with payment source recorded and status displayed as \"Disposed\"", "Settlement at a National Lok Adalat sitting organised by the UP State Legal Services Authority / District Legal Services Authority, for challans that are already pending before a court" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "e-Challan helpdesk (the portal that serves UP) — phone", "value": "0120-4925505, 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM" }, { "label": "e-Challan helpdesk — email", "value": "helpdesk-echallan[at]gov[dot]in" }, { "label": "mParivahan technical support — email", "value": "helpdesk-mparivahan[at]gov[dot]in" }, { "label": "UP Transport Department helpline (24x7)", "value": "1800-1800-151" }, { "label": "UP Police Traffic Directorate — phone", "value": "0522-2390468 (CUG: +91 9454402555)" }, { "label": "UP Police Traffic Directorate — email", "value": "dirtraffic[at]nic[dot]in" }, { "label": "UP Police Traffic Directorate — address", "value": "Traffic Directorate, Police Bhawan, Gomti Nagar Extension, Shahid Path, Lucknow" }, { "label": "UP Police emergency / control room", "value": "112 (UP-112)" }, { "label": "NALSA legal services helpline (Lok Adalat queries)", "value": "15100" } ], "quirks": [ "Uttar Pradesh is NOT on the NextGen e-Challan portal. The banner on echallan.parivahan.gov.in names the migrated states as AN, AR, AS, BR, CH, CG, DD, GA, HP, HR, JH, JK, KA, LA, MH, ML, MN, MZ, NL, PB, PY, SK, TN, UK, WB, RJ and GJ — UP is absent, and the \"UK\" on that list is Uttarakhand, which is the single most common mix-up.", "The old UP Traffic Police challan site is dead. traffic.uppolice.gov.in and traffic.uppolice.gov.in/MyChallan returned no response at all over either http or https when tested on 12 August 2026, yet a large number of guides still send people there. UP Police's own Traffic Directorate Portal page no longer links to it — its \"Click Here for view and pay online challan\" link now points at echallan.parivahan.gov.in.", "The national grievance form at echallan.parivahan.gov.in/gsticket/ tells non-Delhi users to go to the NextGen portal and its eligible-state list is the same 27-state NextGen list that excludes UP. UP complainants are effectively left with the helpdesk phone/email, or the Virtual Court route for court-forwarded challans.", "UP's notified compounding schedule is not published as a gazette PDF. It sits as an HTML table titled \"DETAIL OF COMPOUNDING CHARGES(SHAMAN SHULK) AGAINST CHALLANS FOR THE TRAFFIC RULES VIOLATIONS\" inside the UP Police Traffic Directorate \"About Us\" page, opening with the section-200 recital \"the Governor is pleased to authorize the officers mentioned in column-2...\". It carries no notification number and no date.", "The same official page is partly stale: its \"Important Acts and Rules in Connection with Traffic\" list stops at 2001-era central amendments and still frames the MV Act 1939 as the predecessor — even though the compounding table itself is clearly post-2019 (it includes s.194B(2) child restraint, s.184(c) handheld device and s.194D helmet at the 2019 figures).", "Drunk driving (s.185) and dangerous driving other than handheld phone use (s.184 clauses a, b, d, e, f — which include jumping a red light) are absent from UP's compounding schedule, and the s.177 general line expressly carves out \"offences mentioned in Section 184 a, b, d, e, f\". Those challans cannot be compounded or paid away and go to court.", "Overspeeding in UP is compounded at the top of the statutory band, not the bottom: Rs 2,000 for a light motor vehicle and Rs 4,000 for a medium/heavy passenger or goods vehicle, where the central s.183 range is Rs 1,000-2,000 and Rs 2,000-4,000.", "Failure to produce documents is a separate and far cheaper line than the underlying offence in UP: Rs 500 first / Rs 1,500 subsequent under s.177 read with s.130, and the official chart adds the note \"Documents in electronic form in Degiloker will be accepted\" (sic — DigiLocker).", "A challan already forwarded to Virtual Court can still be paid on the e-challan portal. The portal shows a disclaimer you must accept, warning you not to also pay at the Virtual Court — double payment is a real risk here, and \"Double Payment Done\" is one of the standing grievance categories.", "Cash and offline-compounded challans display as \"Disposed\" rather than \"Paid\" on the national portal (the portal maps a status of 'Cash' to the label 'Disposed'), which regularly confuses people hunting for a \"Paid\" marker.", "A legacy UP Police Act 1861 compounding table still sits on the same official page, showing Rs 100 for offences like \"Violation of traffic signals /signs\" and \"Parking a vehicle in the restricted area\" under s.31/32, and Rs 50 under s.34. These are old police-act amounts and are not what an MV Act e-challan will charge.", "UP's Virtual Court covers only the Traffic Department (UPVC01). There is no Transport Department virtual court for UP, so transport/RTO enforcement challans do not have that route." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Which portal do I use for a UP e-challan — echallan.parivahan.gov.in or the NextGen site?", "a": "Use echallan.parivahan.gov.in. Uttar Pradesh has not migrated to the NextGen portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in; the migration banner lists 27 states and UTs and UP is not among them. The \"UK\" on that list is Uttarakhand, not Uttar Pradesh, which is the mistake people make most often." }, { "q": "The UP Traffic Police site traffic.uppolice.gov.in will not open. Is it down permanently?", "a": "It gave no response at all over either http or https when checked on 12 August 2026, and UP Police's own Traffic Directorate Portal page no longer links to it. That page's \"view and pay online challan\" link now points to echallan.parivahan.gov.in, so treat the old MyChallan address as retired." }, { "q": "Can I pay a UP drunk-driving or red-light-jumping challan online?", "a": "Generally no. Uttar Pradesh's section-200 compounding schedule leaves out s.185 (drunk driving) entirely, and of section 184 it lists only clause (c), handheld phone use. Red-light jumping falls under s.184(a), which the schedule also carves out of the general s.177 line, so both offences are prosecuted in court rather than settled by payment." }, { "q": "My challan says it has been forwarded to Virtual Court. Where should I pay?", "a": "Either place, but only once. You can search the case at vcourts.gov.in under \"Uttar Pradesh(Traffic Department)\" using the challan or vehicle number, or pay on the e-challan portal after accepting its warning, which reads: \"If you choose to pay here, do not pay at Virtual Court. Similarly, If you have paid at Virtual Court, please do not pay here again.\"" }, { "q": "What are the helmet and seat-belt fines in Uttar Pradesh?", "a": "Rs 1,000 each in UP's notified compounding schedule — helmet under s.194D read with rule 121 of the UP Motor Vehicle Rules 1998, and seat belt under s.194B(1). Carrying a child under 14 without a safety belt or child restraint is also Rs 1,000 under s.194B(2), and triple-riding a motorcycle is Rs 1,000 under s.194C." }, { "q": "I was challaned only for not carrying my licence or RC. Is that the same as driving without one?", "a": "No. UP treats failure to present the RC, permit, fitness certificate, driving licence or PUC on demand as its own line — Rs 500 for a first offence and Rs 1,500 for a repeat, under s.177 read with s.130. The official chart also notes that documents held electronically in DigiLocker are accepted, so a valid DigiLocker copy should avoid this challan." }, { "q": "Money was debited but the challan still shows Pending. What do I do?", "a": "Go to echallan.parivahan.gov.in/payment-verification, search by Challan Number or Vehicle Number, then verify using either \"Challan Number / GRN Number\" or \"Transaction ID\". If it is still unresolved, contact the e-challan helpdesk on 0120-4925505 between 6:00 AM and 10:00 PM, or email helpdesk-echallan[at]gov[dot]in, and keep the transaction ID handy." }, { "q": "Can a UP traffic challan be reduced at Lok Adalat?", "a": "Challans already pending before a court can be taken up at National Lok Adalats organised by the UP State Legal Services Authority and its 74 District Legal Services Authorities. NALSA's own disposal records show sittings held on 14 March 2026 and 9 May 2026. The reduction, if any, is decided at the sitting itself — no fixed discount percentage is published in advance." }, { "q": "How much is overspeeding in Uttar Pradesh?", "a": "UP compounds it at the maximum of the central band: Rs 2,000 for a light motor vehicle and Rs 4,000 for a medium or heavy passenger or goods vehicle, under s.183(1). The central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 allows a range of Rs 1,000-2,000 and Rs 2,000-4,000 respectively, plus impounding of the driving licence for a second or subsequent offence." } ], "fine_overrides": { "overspeeding": { "amount_text": "Rs 2,000 for a light motor vehicle and Rs 4,000 for a medium or heavy passenger/goods vehicle under s.183(1) — UP fixes the top of the central Rs 1,000-2,000 / Rs 2,000-4,000 band. The same row also carries a \"Not compoundable\" note.", "source": "https://uppolice.gov.in/pages/en/topmenu/police-units/traffic-directorate/en-about-us-traffic-directorate" }, "mobile-phone-while-driving": { "amount_text": "Rs 1,000 for a first offence and Rs 10,000 for a second or subsequent offence, compounded under s.184(c) read with rule 21 CMVR — well below the Rs 5,000 top-of-range figure most charts quote for section 184.", "source": "https://uppolice.gov.in/pages/en/topmenu/police-units/traffic-directorate/en-about-us-traffic-directorate" }, "drunk-driving": { "amount_text": "Not compoundable in Uttar Pradesh — s.185 is absent from the state's section-200 compounding schedule, so it cannot be settled by paying the officer or paying online; the challan goes to court.", "source": "https://uppolice.gov.in/pages/en/topmenu/police-units/traffic-directorate/en-about-us-traffic-directorate" }, "dangerous-driving-red-light": { "amount_text": "Not compoundable in Uttar Pradesh — only s.184(c) (handheld phone) appears in the state schedule, and s.184 clauses a, b, d, e and f, which include jumping a red light, are expressly carved out of the Rs 500 s.177 line too. These go to court.", "source": "https://uppolice.gov.in/pages/en/topmenu/police-units/traffic-directorate/en-about-us-traffic-directorate" } }, "sources": [ "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/check-challan-status", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/payment-verification", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/gsticket/", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/policy/contact-us", "https://uppolice.gov.in/pages/en/topmenu/police-units/traffic-directorate/en-about-us-traffic-directorate", "https://uppolice.gov.in/article/en/traffic-directorate-portal", "https://uppolice.gov.in/pages/en/topmenu/janhit-sevayen-citizen-services/en-traffic-directorate-portal", "https://uppolice.gov.in/site/writereaddata/RTI/RTI_201803191216313459.pdf", "https://uptransport.upsdc.gov.in/", "https://uptransport.upsdc.gov.in/Pages/E_Challan", "https://uptransport.upsdc.gov.in/Pages/Enforcement", "https://uptransport.upsdc.gov.in/Pages/GuidelinesDocuments", "https://uptransport.upsdc.gov.in/Page/Circular", "https://vcourts.gov.in/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/index.php", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/help.php", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/about_us.php", "https://nalsa.gov.in/lok-adalat", "https://nalsa.gov.in/national-lok-adalat/", "https://uttarpradesh.nalsa.gov.in/lok-adalat/", "https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/MVA.pdf", "https://parivahan.gov.in/sites/default/files/FAQDOCS/Echallan/echallan-user-manual.pdf", "https://parivahan.gov.in/sites/default/files/FAQDOCS/Echallan/eChallan-brochure-ver-1.0.pdf", "https://vahan.parivahan.gov.in/vahanservice/vahan/ui/otherservices/editMobileNumber.xhtml", "https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" }, { "slug": "west-bengal", "name": "West Bengal", "target_keyword": "west bengal e challan", "portals": [ { "label": "Sanjog - West Bengal unified pending challan portal (Kolkata Traffic Police + WB Traffic Police + Transport Dept)", "url": "https://sanjog.wb.gov.in/payFine", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan (MoRTH/NIC) - the national portal West Bengal has been migrated to", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Legacy Parivahan eChallan 'accused challan' page (still linked from WB police sites; redirects WB users to NextGen)", "url": "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Virtual Courts - select 'West Bengal(Traffic Department)' for court-forwarded challans", "url": "https://vcourts.gov.in/", "scope": "both" }, { "label": "Kolkata Traffic Police eNOC / case details by vehicle number", "url": "https://kolkatatrafficpolice.net/CasedDetailsWithNOC.aspx", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "Kolkata Traffic Police eNOC / case details by driving licence number", "url": "https://kolkatatrafficpolice.net/OLDLNOC.aspx", "scope": "check" }, { "label": "West Bengal Traffic Police - Schedule II offences and compounding amounts", "url": "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/offences-and-penalties.php", "scope": "check" } ], "check_steps": [ "Open Sanjog at https://sanjog.wb.gov.in/payFine - this is West Bengal's own unified portal and the only one that shows Kolkata Traffic Police, West Bengal Traffic Police and Transport Department challans in a single search.", "Type the registration number into the 'Vehicle number' box. The field force-uppercases your input and blocks spaces, dashes and other special characters, so enter it as one unbroken string (e.g. WB02AB1234).", "Enter the last five characters of the chassis number into 'Chassis number (Last 5 Digits)' - the field is capped at 5 characters and Sanjog will not search on the vehicle number alone. Take it from your Registration Certificate.", "Click the magnifier search button next to the chassis field. Pending and already-paid challans for all three agencies load in a table below the form. There is no captcha and no OTP on this search.", "To cross-check the national record, open https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan and pick the 'Check Pending Challan Status' tile.", "On that form choose one of the three tabs - 'Challan Number', 'Vehicle Number' or 'DL Number'. The Vehicle Number tab also demands the vehicle's 'Registration Date' (DD/MM/YYYY); the DL Number tab demands 'Date of Birth'.", "Type the on-screen captcha into 'Enter Captcha Here' (there is an audio-playback icon and a refresh icon if it is unreadable), then click 'GET DETAILS' - the button stays greyed out until every field is filled.", "If the challan was sent to court, search it separately at https://vcourts.gov.in/ : choose 'West Bengal(Traffic Department)' from the department dropdown, click 'Proceed Now', then use the 'Challan/Vehicle No.' tab." ], "pay_steps": [ "On the Sanjog results table, tick the challans you want to clear. Challans raised by Kolkata Traffic Police, West Bengal Traffic Police and the Transport Department can be settled together in a single transaction.", "Proceed to the payment gateway from Sanjog and complete the payment, then save or print the receipt before closing the browser.", "Alternative route - on NextGen (https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan) click 'GET DETAILS', then 'Pay' against the challan you want to settle.", "Verify the 6-digit OTP sent to the mobile number registered against the vehicle or licence, then complete payment. NextGen's own instructions say to 'Pay by Debit/Credit Card/Internet Banking/UPI'.", "Download the receipt using 'Download Payment Receipt', and 'Download Challan Print' if you need the challan itself.", "If money was debited but the challan still shows as pending, use the 'Check Pending Transaction' service on the NextGen portal to reconcile the transaction before paying a second time.", "For a Kolkata case that still shows pending after payment at a bank or through GRIPS, the official instruction is to get the record updated at the Traffic Computer Cell, Lalbazar (033 2214-1048).", "Never pay the same challan on both the e-challan portal and the Virtual Court - NextGen warns explicitly that a court-forwarded challan can still be paid on the portal and that you must choose one venue only." ], "sms_app_methods": [ "Prosecution SMS with challan link (Kolkata Traffic Police): open the e-challan link sent in the prosecution SMS and enter the mobile number you gave the prosecuting officer as the password to download the challan PDF - documented in the official Kolkata Traffic Police FAQ (answer 13).", "mParivahan, the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways national app (official site mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in), carries virtual RC/DL and vehicle challan history nationally, so it also covers West Bengal vehicles.", "No West Bengal-specific SMS shortcode or state challan app was found documented on any official state page - use the Sanjog web portal instead." ], "court_challan_process": "West Bengal has a live Virtual Court for traffic challans: vcourts.gov.in lists \"West Bengal(Traffic Department)\" (court code WBVC01) among its departments. When an officer marks a challan for court rather than on-the-spot compounding, it is forwarded there and the citizen can look it up at vcourts.gov.in by choosing that department, clicking \"Proceed Now\", and then searching under one of four tabs - \"Mobile Number\", \"CNR Number\", \"Party Name\" or \"Challan/Vehicle No.\" - each protected by a captcha before \"Submit\". There is no working deep link for West Bengal; the dropdown must be used. A court-forwarded challan can still be paid on the NextGen eChallan portal, which displays an explicit warning that the challan \"has been forwarded to Virtual Court ... but still it can be paid here. If you choose to pay here, do not pay at Virtual Court\" - so pay in exactly one venue. NextGen also tracks cases \"Transferred to Regular Court\", showing the court name, court address and CL number, in which case the matter is disposed in that regular court and the amount is subject to adjudication rather than a fixed compounding figure. Offences outside West Bengal's Schedule II compoundable list - most notably drunk driving under Section 185 - cannot be closed by paying a challan at all and must go before a court. Separately, the West Bengal Traffic Police Branch Headquarters organises traffic Lok Adalats for \"disposal of long pending cases/prosecutions\", arranged by district traffic units and Commissionerate branches \"in consultation with the Ld. District and Sessions judges and Ld. Addl. District Judges\", covering cases under the Motor Vehicles Act 1988, the Central Motor Vehicles Rules 1989 and the West Bengal Motor Vehicles Rules; the site publishes a table of past sittings by district with fines realised. On refunds, the Kolkata Traffic Police FAQ states that money taken as a compounding fee is non-refundable because the case is disposed of on the spot under Section 200 of the MV Act, whereas a sum recovered as cash bail may be refunded or adjusted by court order if you appear. For court-pending Kolkata cases the official instruction is to visit the police office attached to the concerned Ld. Court.", "payment_methods": [ "UPI", "Debit card", "Credit card", "Internet banking", "Single combined online payment on Sanjog covering Kolkata Traffic Police, WB Traffic Police and Transport Department challans together", "GRIPS / designated bank counters (older West Bengal channel, still referenced in the Kolkata Traffic Police FAQ)", "On-the-spot compounding to the enforcing officer against a compound slip / T.R. Form-7 deposit" ], "contacts": [ { "label": "Kolkata Traffic Police helpline (toll free, any subscriber)", "value": "1073" }, { "label": "Kolkata Traffic Control Room (mobile)", "value": "98300-10000, 98308-11111" }, { "label": "Kolkata Traffic Control Room (WhatsApp only)", "value": "99035-88888" }, { "label": "Kolkata Traffic Control Room (landline)", "value": "+91 33 2214-3644, +91 33 2242-7248, +91 33 2214-1475, +91 33 2214-1476" }, { "label": "Kolkata Traffic Computer Cell (payment not reflected / record update)", "value": "+91 33 2214-1048, +91 33 2250-5092" }, { "label": "Kolkata DC Traffic (email)", "value": "dctp@kolkatatrafficpolice.gov.in" }, { "label": "Kolkata Traffic Police (alternate emails)", "value": "dctp@kolkatapolice.gov.in, dctraffickol@gmail.com" }, { "label": "West Bengal Traffic Police HQ Control Room", "value": "033 2359-8289, 033 2359-4015, +91 9147890120" }, { "label": "West Bengal Traffic Police HQ Control Room (email, as printed on the official page)", "value": "wbtcr_07@yahoo.co.in" }, { "label": "NextGen eChallan national helpdesk (NIC/MoRTH)", "value": "0120-4925505, helpdesk-echallan@gov.in" }, { "label": "Kolkata Police Headquarters", "value": "+91 33 2214 5000" } ], "quirks": [ "West Bengal has TWO live official challan portals running side by side. The state's own Sanjog portal (sanjog.wb.gov.in) is mandated across Kolkata Police, West Bengal Police and the Transport Department, while the national NextGen portal (echallan.parivahan.nic.in) also lists WB among the migrated states and has dedicated wb-traffic-challan / wb-payment routes. Check both; only Sanjog aggregates all three WB agencies in one search.", "Sanjog will not search on a registration number alone - the form requires the last 5 characters of the chassis number as a second field, which you can only read off the Registration Certificate. The trade-off is that there is no captcha and no OTP on the search.", "kolkatatrafficpolice.net, the old Kolkata Traffic Police payment site, now 302-redirects its root to https://sanjog.wb.gov.in/. Its individual deep pages (eNOC by vehicle, eNOC by driving licence) still work if you go to them directly.", "The Kolkata Traffic Police FAQ still documents the pre-migration payment flow - vehicle number, last 5 chassis characters, Email ID, Mobile No., 'Get OTP' then 'Confirm' - which no longer matches what Sanjog actually asks for.", "The West Bengal Traffic Police page titled 'Online payment of Traffic Fines via e-Challan' (its GRIPS page) no longer explains GRIPS at all: it simply points at the LEGACY echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan URL, even though WB has since been moved to the NextGen portal.", "Kolkata Traffic Police's 'Offence & Penalties' page returns HTTP 200 but the body is only the sentence 'kolkatatrafficpolice.gov.in under routine maintenance work'. The Kolkata fine schedule is effectively offline; use the West Bengal Traffic Police Schedule II page instead.", "West Bengal adopted the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 penalties late. The operative state compounding schedule is Notification No. 208-WT/3M-128/97 (Pt. III)(D) dated 24 January 2022 of the Transport Department - roughly two and a half years after the central amendment.", "The PUC / air-pollution fine was cut by Notification No. 1553-WT/TPT-18011/47/2024 dated 9 August 2024, which partially modified serial 14 of Schedule II to ₹2,000 / ₹5,000 / ₹10,000 by offence count. The Schedule II table published on the same West Bengal Traffic Police website still shows the superseded flat ₹10,000 - the 2024 notification is the current one.", "Drunk driving under Section 185 does not appear anywhere in West Bengal's Schedule II list of compoundable offences, so it cannot be settled by paying a challan online or on the spot - it goes to court.", "Red-light jumping is not booked under Section 184 in West Bengal. The Transport Department's own offence list maps 'Not stopping at Red Light' to rule 119 / Section 177, which is the residual ₹500 slab, not the ₹5,000 dangerous-driving slab.", "If a challan has been forwarded to the Virtual Court, the NextGen portal still lets you pay it and pops a warning telling you not to pay in both places. Double payment is a real risk here.", "vcourts.gov.in has no working deep link for West Bengal - passing state_cd=16 and court_code=WBVC01 in the URL just returns the generic landing page. You must select 'West Bengal(Traffic Department)' from the dropdown and press 'Proceed Now'.", "The Transport Department's own website (transport.wb.gov.in) contains no mention of Sanjog, e-challan or challans anywhere on its home page or FAQ, and its 'Offences & Penalties' page lists offence sections with no rupee amounts at all.", "Speed limits in West Bengal are fixed locally by Commissioner of Police / district orders (for example C.P. Order No. 30/24 dated 01.04.2024 for the Asansol-Durgapur Commissionerate, issued under Notification No. 2827(A)-WT/3M-80/2002), so the limit you are booked against varies road by road.", "The West Bengal Traffic Police site is on a .com domain (wbtrafficpolice.com), which looks unofficial but is listed as the force's website on wbpolice.gov.in. Its Lok Adalat page is spelled 'loke-adalat.php', and kolkatatrafficpolice.net/Mobile_Lokadalat.aspx - still linked from the Kolkata Traffic Police home page - returns 404.", "wbtrafficpolice.com is designated as the West Bengal Traffic Police's official website on wbpolice.gov.in's official-websites page (WBP_Important_Websites.aspx), but it is a .com domain, not a .gov.in domain - worth noting for anyone checking whether a WB traffic site is genuine." ], "faqs": [ { "q": "Should I use Sanjog or the Parivahan portal to check a West Bengal challan?", "a": "Start with Sanjog (sanjog.wb.gov.in/payFine). It is West Bengal's own unified portal and the only one that shows Kolkata Traffic Police, West Bengal Traffic Police and Transport Department challans together, payable in a single transaction. Then cross-check the national NextGen portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan, which now also serves West Bengal and carries dedicated WB routes." }, { "q": "Why does Sanjog ask for my chassis number as well as the vehicle number?", "a": "Sanjog's search requires both the registration number and the last 5 characters of the chassis number, and will not return anything on the vehicle number alone. The chassis number is printed on your Registration Certificate. In return, the Sanjog search has no captcha and no OTP step, unlike the national portal." }, { "q": "What is the fine for driving without a PUC certificate in West Bengal?", "a": "Under Notification No. 1553-WT dated 9 August 2024 it is ₹2,000 for the first offence, ₹5,000 for the second and ₹10,000 for the third and subsequent offences, and in every case the driver is disqualified from holding a licence for three months. Older official charts still show a flat ₹10,000, which that notification superseded." }, { "q": "Can a drunk-driving challan be paid online in West Bengal?", "a": "No. Section 185 is not in West Bengal's Schedule II list of compoundable offences, so a drunk-driving case cannot be closed by paying a challan on Sanjog or the Parivahan portal. It is placed before a court and the outcome, including any fine, is decided there." }, { "q": "My challan says it was forwarded to the Virtual Court. Where do I pay it?", "a": "Pay in one place only. Go to vcourts.gov.in, choose 'West Bengal(Traffic Department)', click 'Proceed Now' and search under the 'Challan/Vehicle No.' tab. The NextGen eChallan portal also still accepts payment for court-forwarded challans, and warns explicitly that if you pay there you must not pay at the Virtual Court as well." }, { "q": "I paid my fine but the challan still shows as pending. What should I do?", "a": "On the NextGen portal use the 'Check Pending Transaction' service to reconcile the transaction before paying again. For a Kolkata case paid at a bank counter or through GRIPS, the official Kolkata Traffic Police instruction is to visit the Traffic Computer Cell at Lalbazar (033 2214-1048) and have the record updated." }, { "q": "How much is the helmet and seatbelt fine in West Bengal?", "a": "Both are ₹1,000 under West Bengal's Schedule II - Section 194D for not wearing protective headgear and Section 194B for seat belts. The helmet offence additionally disqualifies the offender from holding a driving licence for three months. These match the central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 figures, so there is no separate state rate." } ], "fine_overrides": { "driving-without-puc": { "amount_text": "₹2,000 first offence, ₹5,000 second, ₹10,000 third and subsequent - each also carrying a 3-month licence disqualification. Some official charts still show the ₹10,000 statutory figure - the e-challan states the payable amount.", "source": "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/userfiles/file/notification/2024-1553-WT-Notification-reg.-Revision-of-Fine-on-Air-Pollution.pdf" }, "overspeeding": { "amount_text": "LMV ₹1,000 first offence, ₹2,000 second. MGV/MPV/HGV/HPV ₹2,000 first, ₹4,000 second. On a second offence the driver's licence is also impounded under Section 206(4).", "source": "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/offences-and-penalties.php" }, "dangerous-driving-red-light": { "amount_text": "Dangerous driving (s.184) compounds at ₹5,000, rising to ₹10,000 if repeated within three years. Red-light jumping is booked separately in West Bengal under rule 119 / s.177, the ₹500 slab (₹1,500 on repeat).", "source": "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/offences-and-penalties.php" } }, "sources": [ "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/", "https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/assets/i18n/en.json", "https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/main.db63879fb0a70e64.js", "https://sanjog.wb.gov.in/", "https://sanjog.wb.gov.in/payFine", "https://sanjog.wb.gov.in/activateaccount", "https://sanjog.wb.gov.in/resources/assets/js/vehicleSearch_User.js", "https://kolkatatrafficpolice.gov.in/", "https://kolkatatrafficpolice.gov.in/faqs.html", "https://kolkatatrafficpolice.gov.in/helpline.html", "https://kolkatatrafficpolice.gov.in/contact_us.html", "https://kolkatatrafficpolice.gov.in/offence_and_penalties.html", "https://kolkatatrafficpolice.net/", "https://kolkatatrafficpolice.net/CasedDetailsWithNOC.aspx", "https://kolkatatrafficpolice.net/OLDLNOC.aspx", "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/", "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/offences-and-penalties.php", "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/acts-and-rules.php", "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/loke-adalat.php", "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/notification.php", "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/grips-payment.php", "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/online-fine-payments-via-grips.php", "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/important-contact-numbers.php", "https://www.wbtrafficpolice.com/userfiles/file/notification/2024-1553-WT-Notification-reg.-Revision-of-Fine-on-Air-Pollution.pdf", "https://wbtrafficpolice.com/userfiles/file/notification/c-p-order-no-30.pdf", "https://wbpolice.gov.in/wbp/Common/WBP_Important_Websites.aspx", "https://transport.wb.gov.in/", "https://transport.wb.gov.in/acts-rules/offences-penalties/", "https://transport.wb.gov.in/references/faq/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/", "https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/main.php", "https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/" ], "last_verified": "2026-08-12" } ] }