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In 2025, riding without a helmet and driving without a information loop topped the database of postulation violations successful Bengaluru.
However, the numbers person declined compared to erstwhile years, according to ASTraM information accessed by The Hindu.
Overall violations besides dropped, with the Bengaluru Traffic Police (BTP) issuing 69.88 lakh challans successful 2025. In comparison, much than 80 lakh violations were recorded successful 2024, 90 lakh successful 2023, and 1 crore successful 2022.
Riding without a helmet accounted for 29.09% of full violations, followed by pillion riders without helmets (16.13%), incorrect parking (15.97%), driving without a information loop (10.46%), jumping postulation signals (9.47%), and no-entry driving (4.33%).
The BTP issues challans for 27 antithetic types of violations.
The information besides shows that astir of the violations were recorded astatine constabulary stations covering high-density corridors and marketplace areas. East Bengaluru’s Jeevan Bima Nagar recorded the highest fig of violations (38,367), followed by HAL Airport Road, Bellandur, Shivajinagar, and Jnanabharathi.
Meanwhile, 2025 besides saw the postulation constabulary returning to the streets to intercept vehicles and penalise commuters. The information shows that 87% of challans were issued contactless and 13% done carnal contact. In 2024, 94% of challans were contactless, and 6% progressive contact. However, galore are unhappy with this change, saying it not lone increases malpractices wrong the section but besides poses information risks, arsenic violators thin to evade constabulary interception.
Contact oregon contactless policing?
A elder postulation constabulary serviceman attributed the diminution successful violations to a operation of tract enforcement and tech-driven policing, saying these measures amended roadworthy information and subject among commuters.
Rajkumar Dugar, convenor of Citizens for Citizens (C4C), argued that the autumn successful violations is chiefly owed to the fearfulness of cameras and contactless booking of cases. “The beingness of cameras crossed the metropolis is ever successful the backmost of people’s minds, which forces commuters to travel the rules portion radical effort to evade officers who are catching violations connected the ground,” helium said.
However, Karthik Reddy, Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), clarified that on-field enforcement is carried retired lone for disposable violations and that determination is nary random interception.
“To guarantee officers are not demanding wealth oregon indulging successful unethical practices, we person mandated the usage of body-worn cameras. So determination is precise small scope for harassment of commuters,” Mr. Reddy told The Hindu.
But Mr. Dugar said postulation regularisation often takes a backmost spot erstwhile violations are intercepted successful the field. “For example, adjacent the Mount Carmel College underpass, determination is dense congestion each day. Instead of managing postulation astatine the spot, the constabulary are often seen catching violators immoderate region away,” helium explained. Mr. Dugar said that this is not an isolated incident, arsenic galore commuters person flagged akin issues implicit the past six months.
Notably, the Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS) was introduced successful 2022 to alteration contactless enforcement successful the metropolis and let postulation constabulary to absorption amended connected on-ground postulation regulation.
Safety issues
Mr. Dugar suggested that alternatively of on-field interception, exertion should beryllium strengthened and good postulation practices for camera-recorded violations improved.
“The BTP should present a strategy that gives violators 60 to 90 days to wide fines and nonstop challans regularly. For those who bash not wide their fines, the magnitude should beryllium accrued by a fixed percent aft the deadline,” helium said.
Akshay Mitra, a techie, suggested that the BTP should fortify the exertion to penalise speed-limit violations crossed the metropolis and different violations that airs risks to commuters and impact roadworthy safety.
The information besides shows that safety-related violations, isolated from not wearing helmets and spot belts, are booked little frequently. Speeding, a large origin of fatal accidents, particularly connected the city’s outskirts, receives little attention. The information shows that lone 40,439 overspeeding cases and 18,887 cases of riding connected footpaths were booked successful 2025, adjacent though these rules are wide violated.
Similarly, successful the lawsuit of footpath parking, which forces pedestrians to locomotion connected the roadworthy and increases information risks, 1.28 lakh cases were booked. Mr. Mitra said the BTP should absorption much connected these violations connected the ground, alternatively than chiefly targeting helmetless riding and akin offences.
(This is the 2nd of a three-part series, successful which we look astatine trends and patterns successful Bengaluru’s postulation violations.)
