Mumbai: The Maharashtra Transporters Action Committee (MTAC) has sought an overhaul of the e-challan enforcement system, alleging that challans are being issued in several cases without adequate scientific verification and calling for greater transparency in traffic enforcement.
The committee raised the issue during a meeting with Praveen Salunke, Additional Director General of Police (Traffic), Maharashtra; Sunil Bhardwaj, Superintendent of Police (Traffic); and Jadhav, Inspector of Police (Traffic). Representatives from different segments of the transport sector, including trucks, tempos, tankers, buses, trailers, LPG transporters and local and outstation operators, were present.
In a memorandum submitted to the Traffic Police, the MTAC alleged that officials sometimes click photographs of stationary or moving vehicles using cameras or handheld devices and issue challans based on such images. It questioned the evidentiary value of photographs without adequate timestamp, location data or scientific verification.
The committee has demanded that e-challans be backed by scientifically verifiable evidence, including CCTV or video footage, ANPR, AI-based systems, sensors and GPS data, with evidence being timestamped and geo-tagged. It has also sought real-time intimation of challans to vehicle owners and an automated system for de-blacklisting vehicles after payment or court settlement.
The MTAC further opposed the roadside recovery of past e-challans and sought a single-window mechanism for resolving disputed challans. It also proposed an amnesty scheme for erroneous, unverified and discretionary challans.
The committee said reforms were necessary to ensure transparency, fairness and accountability in e-challan enforcement and stressed that the issue affects ordinary road users as well as the transport sector.
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