After a viral tweet, the Telangana Police officials have paid a penalty of over Rs. 28 lakh for violation of various traffic rules.
Notably, on the 27th of September, Tuesday, a tweet went viral on social media platforms, which mentioned that the police vehicle of the Director General of Police (DGP) of Telangana (No TS09PA 1234) is having challans of Rs. 7,000 pending for the last two years. In the tweet, the Twitter user also mentioned how traffic police are levying challans against citizens and collecting fines, whereas the challans on DGP’s vehicle remained pending for two years.
Reacting to the Twitter post, the State police officials cleared their pending challans and fines, worth over Rs. 28 lakhs, since 2018. The information was confirmed by a senior official on Tuesday evening.
The police officers have cleared 11,601 pending challans and paid a fine amount of Rs. 28,85,640 to the traffic police, said the Joint Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Hyderabad, Mr. A.V. Ranganath.
Mr. A.V. Ranganath also said, “Hyderabad Traffic Police is enforcing traffic rules/fines without any exception by strictly following the rule of law. The fact that we are imposing Challans on police and other government vehicles clearly demonstrates that we are fining/enforcing against all categories of vehicles.”
It is to be noted, the Telangana Traffic Police imposed strict rules regarding traffic violations in the State, to reduce accidents and other traffic related incidents.
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