A Bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice KV Viswanathan made the suggestion while hearing a plea concerning the electronic enforcement of traffic violations and recovery of unpaid e-challan fines.
Justice Pardiwala held that the authorities needed to look beyond merely issuing e-challans, and should focus on recovering the fines.
“It is not just sufficient to keep issuing e-challans.
Question is recovery of fines as sought to be imposed by way of the e-challans,” said Justice Pardiwala.
The Court then suggested that unpaid traffic fines could be added to electricity dues so that defaulters would have an additional incentive to clear them.
A Bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice KV Viswanathan made the suggestion while hearing a plea concerning the electronic enforcement of traffic violations and recovery of unpaid e-challan fines.
Justice Pardiwala held that the authorities needed to look beyond merely issuing e-challans, and should focus on recovering the fines.
“It is not just sufficient to keep issuing e-challans. Police may issue thousands and lakhs of such e-challans. Question is recovery of fines as sought to be imposed by way of the e-challans,” said Justice Pardiwala.
The Court then suggested that unpaid traffic fines could be added to electricity dues so that defaulters would have an additional incentive to clear them.
“If people are not paying traffic challans, add it to their electricity dues bill. They’ll have to pay electricity bills else power line will be disconnected. Work it out. In this country, you have to find a way out,” said the Court.
