BANGALORE: If you have received a traffic violation notice and are sure of not having broken any rules, you can contest the notice in court. It will be the responsibility of the police to prove that a traffic rule has been broken.Speaking to Express, Additional Commissioner of Police for Traffic and Security M A Saleem said, “We have ways of proving that the challans we send are justified. Traffic violators are usually captured in at least one of our surveillance cameras.”How the method works is simple. To handle the large numbers of violators with the few cameras available is impossible. The traffic personnel on the scene hence take down numbers of violators they notice and then feed the numbers into the central database which sends out violation notices. However, this method has come in for criticism from a large section of public who find violation notices delivered to them inspite of not having broken any rules. “I received a challan for driving while using a mobile phone, I am absolutely sure I have not broken the rule,” said Malavika. She still went ahead and paid the fine as she did not want to contest the ticket. Explaining the process Saleem added, “We note down the number, the violation and the place where it occurs, should the person wish to challenge the violation, we check our camera feeds for a visual of the person and provide it as proof.” He stated that the systems were in place to provide proof for most traffic violations since motorists usually pass by the surveillance cameras. “Signal jumping and other such violations which occur near the cameras are easily proved,” he said. With the traffic police having booked a total of 43,53,646 for the current year and the figures expected to touch an all time high of 45 lakh, people who feel they are being fined wrongly must realize that such tickets can be contested.
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