The Chandigarh traffic police seems to be on a challaning spree these days as there has been a massive jump in the number of fines issued for various offences in the first four months of 2018.
According to the data submitted by Chandigarh Police in the Punjab and Haryana high court, in comparison to 1,95,732 challans issued in 2017, the number had already reached 67,153 till April 15 this year.
Also, the department’s collection has gone up. While the Chandigarh police collected around Rs 4.59 crore in 2017 from traffic challans, over Rs 2.19 crore has been collected in fines till mid April.
There has been surge in the number of offenders, while 1,30,533 persons were fined in 2017, the number of traffic offenders in Jaunuary-April quarter this year have been 50,311.
