Gurugram Traffic Police issues orders no not issuing challans, checking vehicles at night

New Delhi, June 6

The Gurugram Traffic Police has issued new directions instructing personnel not to stop vehicles or issue challans at night, except in extreme circumstances. 

This decision came after the city's traffic police received numerous complaints regarding vehicle checks at night.

In an order dated May 28, the traffic department mentioned, “Traffic inspectors are ordered to command all the employees appointed under them in their jurisdiction that no vehicle should be stopped at night and no challan should be issued. If it is very necessary to issue a challan to a driver as per the Motor Vehicles Act, in that situation, the challan of that vehicle should be issued as per rules only after bringing it to the notice of the concerned gazetted officer/undersigned and obtaining permission.”

“It has come to the notice of the undersigned that the traffic police personnel deployed at night are unnecessarily stopping the vehicles of common people and harassing them and unnecessarily issuing challans for vehicles”, it further stated. 

Having said that, the traffic police will continue to be strict against drunk drivers at night to avoid major road accidents. If traffic police personnel do not follow the rules, strict action will be taken against them, officials added.