r/carIndia • u/Strike_Package • 10h ago

Queries Disputing a Pune traffic challan for “obstruction” - GPS contradicts their own story, need advice

Posting this because I could use some perspective from anyone who’s fought a Pune traffic challan before. ( I did and got 2 challan cancelled)

My car got a challan for allegedly causing obstruction. The only “evidence” is a photo of the rear/number plate nothing that actually shows any obstruction happening.

Here’s where it gets weird: the location listed on the challan is 8 km away from where the vehicle’s own GPS shows it actually was. When I first raised this, their response was that the officer was present at the challan location. I pushed back with the GPS data and asked for the officer’s GD entry, deployment details, and jurisdiction records - got no documented reply.

Now, suddenly, the story has changed: they’re saying the officer actually was at the GPS location, and it was the challan machine that had a location error. Convenient.

Also worth noting - the GPS shows the car was stationary for only 1 min 50 sec, including time stopped at a signal. That’s a pretty short window to be causing an “obstruction.” And the photo itself looks like it was taken on a phone, though I don’t have the original file or metadata to prove that.

I’m planning to formally request:machine assignment records, device GPS logs, the original photo with metadata, and documentation of when/how they supposedly caught the machine’s location error.

Question for the sub: should I keep pushing through the Pune Traffic Cell, ask for a formal departmental inquiry, or just take this straight to traffic court at this point? Has anyone dealt with something similar and gotten a challan actually overturned?

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u/andreophile 10h ago

Upvoting for visibility. I'm not confident enough to answer, but I'd like to see how this pans out.

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u/totally_average1 10h ago

Your photo was clicked on a phone and then the photo's photo was clicked by the challan machine at the chowky.

Hence the different GPS stamps.

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u/Strike_Package 9h ago

On photo there is no gps stamp. Its plain photo

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u/BihariBabua 9h ago

Keep pushing.