Kolkata traffic police pending case

Premium After Kolkata Police launches new scheme, 4.75 lakh pending traffic cases cleared in four days In the first phase, people can clear their fines by paying only 35 per cent of the total dues. This phase will end on January 14, after which 50 per cent of the fine amount has to be paid to clear the pending cases. Payments of the fine amounts can be done at the counters in 25 traffic guards of Kolkata Police and at their headquarters in Lalbazar. (File) Kolkata Traffic Police cleared 4.75 lakh pending cases related to traffic violations in four days, after the announcement of a new discount scheme. “In the last four days, 4.75 lakh cases have been disposed of. These cases were pending for long. It is first of its kind that such a scheme has been introduced. This offer was only extended to cases that were registered till November 15. Prosecution for violation of any traffic rule is continuing,” Mitesh Jain Joint CP (Traffic) told The Indian Express. The total penalty amount paid in last few days is around Rs 1.56 crore rupees. Explained As traffic grows, system flooded with more cases In the first phase, people can clear their fines by paying only 35 per cent of the total dues. This phase will end on January 14, after which 50 per cent of the fine amount has to be paid to clear the pending cases. The second phase ends on February 13. After completion of the second phase, people will have to pay the original amount to clear the cases. “It is a great endeavour and they hav...

Calcutta police apparently don't update their traffic penalty records each time a fine is paid in a bank, leaving vehicle owners liable to be summoned to court for non-compliance on the basis of citation cases shown as pending. An elderly Calcuttan who has preserved the receipts issued against traffic fines paid months ago discovered recently that the corresponding citation cases were still pending against her name in the police records. "I went to the Calcutta traffic police website to check if there were pending cases against my vehicle and was shocked to see that old cases for which I had paid the fines had not been disposed of. Luckily, I had kept the bank receipts of some of the fines I had paid last year with which I can prove that the records have not been updated. But for the older cases, I have lost the receipts. Are we supposed to keep the receipts forever because the police won't bother to update their records?" said the woman, who does not want to be identified. On Monday evening, the website showed a pending payment against a traffic offence cited at the crossing of AJC Bose Road and Ballygunge Circular Road at 9.47am on June 2, 2014. But documents in possession of Metro show that the fine of Rs 100 was paid on June 23, 2014. The receipt bears the traffic police department's stamp along with a counterfoil from the bank through which the payment was made against a service charge of Rs 10. The vehicle owner had paid the traffic fines through a bank because she f...

A still from a video showing the mini bus toppling over at the Dorina crossing on Sunday. The bus has 203 pending traffic cases Around 41 per cent of the traffic fines imposed by Kolkata police on errant motorists have remained unpaid for at least six years. According to police records, in the last six years, Kolkata police have had an unrealised fine amount of Rs 194 crore — which would indicate that merely imposing steep fines may not be enough to discipline drivers. News Mini bus involved in Esplanade accident ran without papers for 3 years From 2016 till 2021, the police have imposed traffic fines totalling around Rs 476 crore, of which around Rs 282 crore have been paid. The unpaid amount till the end of 2021 was around Rs 194 crore. The amount of pending fines will be much more if the period before 2016 is taken into consideration. To realise old fines, the police have been asking motorists to clear their dues first whenever they approach cops to lodge a general diary for a lost driving licence, missing vehicle permit or for any other reason. “This way the person is forced to clear the old dues,” an officer said. However, a section of the police feels the compliance level would be much higher if motorists are asked to clear their dues annually while renewing their vehicle documents. A proposal sent from the office of the deputy commissioner, traffic, to the state transport secretary on October 30, 2021 calls for introduction of a system that will make it mandatory fo...