With traffic fines amounting to ₹115 crore remaining unpaid, the Gautam Budh Nagar traffic police on Wednesday began a marketing campaign to seize vehicles which have a big quantity of unpaid fines towards them.
In accordance to traffic police, over 2.3 million fines are still unpaid, and the quantities fluctuate from a minimal of ₹500 to a most of ₹10,000. In all, they whole about ₹115 crore, traffic police stated, including that they’ve began intensive checking of vehicles from Wednesday and the drive would proceed for 15 days.
Officers stated any automobile that has over 5 fines towards it, or fines which have remained unpaid for a number of years, could also be seized quickly.
“We now have vehicles which have over 25-30 fines pending towards them or people who have a number of fines unpaid previously 4 years. These vehicles proceed to ply on roads and incur new fines for violations. In the meantime, the older fines proceed to stay unpaid. We shall be randomly checking automobile data and seizing people who have a number of fines towards it or a number of unpaid fines through the years,” stated Anil Kumar Yadav, deputy commissioner of police (traffic).
He added that extra vehicles are being fined day by day now because the built-in traffic administration system is purposeful and it data all offences resembling leaping the purple mild, not sporting helmet and dashing. These on-line fines are verified by traffic officers earlier than being despatched to automobile house owners.
Traffic fines will be paid on-line on the Parivahan portal or cell app. There may be additionally a in-person cost window on the traffic police workplace in Sector 14A. Whereas the traffic police had just lately began one other window in Sector 37, that had to be shut as there have been no takers. Yadav stated if there have been extra folks needing the power, then the second centre can be reopened.
In Uttar Pradesh, ₹1,000 is the penalty for using with out helmet, ₹500 for unlawful parking, ₹2,000 for driving on the flawed facet and dashing, ₹1,000 for driving with no seat belt and ₹500 for leaping a purple mild. These are additionally among the many commonest offences in Noida, traffic police stated.
In accordance to knowledge from the traffic police, a complete of 588,345 fines have been issued in 2022 alone, amounting to ₹3,07,00,550. Information exhibits that the highest offences final 12 months included using with out helmet, no parking and driving on the flawed facet of the highway.
Authorized specialists say police have the authority to seize vehicles in case the automobile is anticipated to be concerned in a criminal offense or is getting used towards the provisions of the Motor Automobile Act (MV Act).
“In accordance to Part 207 of the MV Act, police have the facility to seize vehicles. Not paying a number of fines can increase suspicions concerning the automobile being concerned in a criminal offense, primarily based on which it may be seized by police. They will additionally advocate the seizure of vehicles to the transport authority in case of allow violations and may refer the case to the court docket. In such instances, the automobile proprietor has to then current his/her case to the transport division or court docket together with paperwork and get the automobile launched,” stated Nitin Bishnoi, a lawyer in Noida.
Part 207 of the MV Act states, “Any police officer or different particular person authorised on this behalf by the state authorities might, if he has purpose to imagine {that a} motorcar has been or is being utilized in contravention of the provisions of part 3 or part 4 or part 39 or with out the allow required by sub-section (1) of part 66 or in contravention of any situation of such allow relating to the route on which or the realm by which or the aim for which the automobile could also be used, seize and detain the automobile, within the prescribed method…”