According to a recently released data from the Traffic Department, traffic violators owe Rs 200 crore to Mumbai traffic police, through unpaid e-challan.

The department has started imposing fines on vehicles found violating traffic rules through e-challans. As soon as anyone is found flouting the traffic norms, the department sends a text message to the violator describing the violations and attaching images as proof. However, as per the data, since 2017, the number of traffic violators has witnessed a steady rise with a majority of them not paying the fine, which has resulted in amount rising to a whopping Rs 200 crore.

Now, in order to recover the outstanding amount, the department has made a list of the violators who have fines of more than Rs 10,000 against their name. The department has handed over the list to RTO offices and also blacklisted the vehicles.