Karnataka Police Launches New Website For Payment Of Fines On Traffic Rule Violations

Fines were paid through the Karnataka One website earlier.

One of the users, however, had a concern regarding this new step by the administration. The user tweeted that the data of this website appears to be unsafe. As per the user, for any vehicle that has a pending fine, the owner and his address are being displayed without being masked.

The ADGP assured the user that the name and address of the traffic rule violated will be hidden for the next 24 hours.

Before the website was launched, the traffic rule violators had to visit the respective traffic stations in their localities to pay the fines. The fines were paid through the Karnataka One or Bangalore One website as well. Now, with the opening of a website only for traffic fine collection purposes, it is expected to minimise the load on traffic stations. This will facilitate the online payment of the penalty amount. As per the ADGP Traffic & Road Safety Alok Kumar, 3.25 traffic-violation-related cases are pending as of now.

Despite such a heavy workload of cases, a fine of Rs 1700 crore could be collected till the end of March. Now, a fine of Rs 1425 crore has to be collected from Bengaluru city. Collection of such massive fines had become an uphill task for the Bengaluru police due to which they asked the opinion of the public regarding this matter.

The police have also written to the transport department to consider amending the Motor Vehicles Act. As per the police, this will allow impounding and auctioning of vehicles involved in multiple violations. C Mallikarjuna, Additional Commissioner of Transport (Enforcement, South), said that this is not a workable solution.

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