Telangana Police Paid Rs 28,85,640 In Traffic Challans

A message went viral on Twitter today that a vehicle belonging to the DGP had accumulated traffic violation fines of Rs 7,000, and asking whether the fines were paid.

The message alleged that the traffic police were levying challans against citizens and collecting fines, but that the vehicle of the DGP of Telangana, bearing no TS09 PA1234, was having challans of Rs 7,000 pending for two years and unpaid.

The traffic police responded to the message saying that, first, all the vehicles belonging to the police in the entire State were registered in the name of the DGP.

They also said that since 2018, police officers of Telangana had cleared a total of 11,601 traffic violation challans, and had paid fines of Rs 28,85,640 to the traffic police.

As for the vehicle TS09PA 1234, it had seven pending challans, and the fine amount of Rs 6,945 was paid by the concerned police officer, the police said.

Even the TSRTC was regularly fined, and had cleared all its pending traffic challan dues as of April 2022 by paying Rs 15 lakh, the police claimed.

"The Hyderabad Traffic Police is enforcing traffic rules/fines without any exception by strictly following the rule of law. The fact that we are imposing challans on police and other government vehicles clearly demonstrates that we are fining all categories of vehicles," the Joint Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Hyderabad, said.