Gujarat e-Challan: Check Status & Pay Online

Last verified: 12 Aug 2026

How to check your Gujarat challan

1. Open the NextGen eChallan portal at https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/challan/challan-services. Gujarat has migrated here: the notice board on the older echallan.parivahan.gov.in explicitly lists GJ among the states whose challans must be checked and paid on the NextGen portal.
2. Choose the 'Check Pending Challan Status' tile. Selecting it narrows the search-type selector to exactly three options — Challan Number, Vehicle Number and DL Number (the Mobile Number and NBT Notice options disappear for this service).
3. Enter the value for the type you picked. A DL search additionally asks for Date of Birth, and a vehicle search can ask for Registration Date or Challan Date. Then fill the captcha.
4. Verify yourself in the OTP modal titled 'Choose Option To Verify'. You can use either 'Vahan Registered Mobile No' or 'By Aadhaar OTP' — the latter accepts a 12-digit Aadhaar number or a 16-digit Virtual Aadhaar ID and requires ticking 'I hereby accept the Aadhaar authentication terms'. Enter the 6-digit OTP.
5. Read the results table: Violator Name, DL/RC Number, Challan Number, Transaction Number, State, Challan Date, Amount and Status, plus Challan Print and Receipt links. A status of 'Disposed' means the challan is already settled.
6. For an older challan, use the legacy Gujarat Police portal at https://echallanpayment.gujarat.gov.in/sasguj/AccusedChallan/NewAccusedChallan — enter the vehicle registration number (format hint on the page is 'Eg. AB12CD3456') plus the captcha and press SUBMIT. That site now carries a bilingual notice that challans dated 13/06/2023 or later must be handled on the Parivahan portal instead.
7. To see whether a challan has gone to court rather than remaining payable, open the 'Sent To Court' status view from the challan row — it reports Sent To Court On, Court Name, Court Address, Court Number, CL Number and the amount.

How to pay a Gujarat challan online

1. From the NextGen results table, use the 'Pay Challan' service or the payment control on the challan row. Gujarat has its own dedicated payment routes on the portal — gj-payment for Traffic Department challans and gj-payment-transport for Transport Department challans.
2. If the challan has already been forwarded to a Virtual Court, a disclaimer modal appears first: 'This challan has been forwarded to Virtual Court (https://vcourts.gov.in/), but still it can be paid here. If you choose to pay here, do not pay at Virtual Court. Similarly, if you have paid at Virtual Court, please do not pay here again.' Tick the acknowledgement to proceed.
3. Complete the mobile/Aadhaar OTP verification, then pay by debit card, credit card, internet banking or UPI — these are the four methods printed on the Gujarat e-challan itself.
4. Alternatively pay from a UPI or banking app, a route printed on every Gujarat challan: open Bills & Recharge / Recharge & Bills / Bill Payment, tap Traffic challan / eChallan, select 'Gujarat E-Challan' or 'State Traffic Branch Gujarat', enter the vehicle number and confirm to pay.
5. Download proof from the 'Download Payment Receipt' tile, and keep the challan print from 'Download Challan Print'. If money left your account but the challan still shows pending, use 'Check Pending Transaction' to reconcile before paying a second time.
6. To pay in cash, visit one of the designated police stations listed on the Gujarat Police portal's Contact Us page (each district lists specific stations with phone numbers). The Gujarat challan instructs you to produce a photocopy of the driving licence, or show it in DigiLocker, at the time of payment.
7. If the challan sits with the Virtual Court, pay there instead: vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/, select Gujarat (Traffic Department) or Gujarat (Transport Department), use the Challan/Vehicle No. tab, click View, verify the OTP and choose 'Accept & Pay'. Court payments are processed through pay.ecourts.gov.in.

Official portals for Gujarat

Check by SMS or app

• mParivahan — the national MoRTH app (mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in); it carries challan lookup alongside virtual DL and RC, which MoRTH has notified as legally valid documents.
• Gujarat e-challans are pushed by SMS to the mobile number registered against the vehicle in Vahan — the challan itself records a 'Violator's Contact No.' field. There is no officially documented pull-SMS shortcode for Gujarat: you cannot text a code to retrieve your challan.
• UPI / banking apps (GPay, PhonePe, YONO and similar): Bills & Recharge → Traffic challan / eChallan → select 'Gujarat E-Challan' or 'State Traffic Branch Gujarat' → enter vehicle number → confirm. This route is printed as an official payment option on the Gujarat e-challan.
• DigiLocker — the Gujarat challan expressly accepts documents shown in DigiLocker in place of paper, and the Commissionerate of Transport penalty schedule states that documents produced in electronic form (DigiLocker) are valid, with 15 days allowed to produce documents after a demand.

Court challans in Gujarat

Gujarat is one of the states wired into the national Virtual Courts system, and unusually it has two separate establishments on vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/: "Gujarat(Traffic Department)" (code GJVC02) and "Gujarat(Transport Department)" (code GJVC01). A challan reaches a court in two ways. First, offences that section 200 of the Motor Vehicles Act does not permit to be compounded cannot be settled by paying a fine at all — drunken driving under section 185 is the clearest example, and it is conspicuously absent from the Gujarat Commissionerate of Transport's published penalty schedule. Section 184 dangerous driving is compoundable "only to the extent of use of handheld communication devices", so other dangerous-driving allegations are court matters too. Second, an unpaid or contested challan is forwarded to court by the enforcement department. The NextGen eChallan portal exposes a "Sent To Court" status view showing Sent To Court On, Court Name, Court Address, Court Number, CL Number and the amount; it also distinguishes "Consumption by Virtual Court / Proceeding is pending", "Transferred to Regular Court" (with the note that the challan will then be disposed in the named regular court) and cases where it explains why the challan was not sent to the virtual court. To settle at the Virtual Court, select Gujarat and the relevant department, search on the Challan/Vehicle No. tab, click View, verify the OTP and choose "Accept & Pay"; payment runs through pay.ecourts.gov.in by card, internet banking or UPI. Critically, a challan forwarded to the Virtual Court can still be paid on the Parivahan portal, and the portal warns in terms not to pay in both places. Beyond the Virtual Court, the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority runs National Lok Adalats (held quarterly, on the second Saturday of the scheduled months, with the year's calendar published by GSLSA) at which pending traffic challan cases are taken up in bulk. A Lok Adalat award is deemed a decree of a civil court, is final and binding on the parties and carries no right of appeal; court fee already paid is refunded on settlement. Note the statutory limit: NALSA states that any matter relating to an offence not compoundable under the law cannot be settled in a Lok Adalat, so a drunk-driving prosecution must still run its course in the regular court.

Traffic fine amounts in Gujarat

Things specific to Gujarat

• Three portals, one state — and they contradict each other. The Gujarat Police portal (echallanpayment.gujarat.gov.in) tells you to go to echallan.parivahan.gov.in; that legacy Parivahan portal's own notice board then lists GJ among the states whose challans must be checked and paid on the NextGen portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in. NextGen is where Gujarat actually lives — it carries dedicated gj-challan, gj-challan-transport, gj-payment and gj-payment-transport routes.
• Hard cutover date of 13 June 2023. The Gujarat Police portal carries a bilingual notice: challans dated 13/06/2023 or later must be checked and paid on the Parivahan portal. The old state portal is therefore only useful for legacy challans predating that date.
• The legacy Gujarat Police portal is visibly unmaintained: its root URL returns HTTP 500 (only the deep /sasguj/AccusedChallan/ paths work), its TLS chain fails to verify in strict clients, a modal reading 'Payment Service Unavailable (Online e-Challan Payment Portal shall be active in 10 Minutes)' is baked into every page, the General Instructions page is blank, the Contact Us page is titled 'DISCLAIMER', the nav has a 'Feedabck' typo and a permanent 'COMING SOON', and the footer still reads 'Copyright © 2019 Gujarat Police'.
• Gujarat notified sharply reduced compounding amounts after the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 took effect in the state. The current schedule is published by the Commissionerate of Transport at cot.gujarat.gov.in/penalty-structure.htm — the page itself carries no notification date but its footer shows it was last updated 4 August 2026, so it is undated but current. No standalone gazette notification PDF is exposed on the Transport Department's own Notifications and Circulars page — that page lists only PUC rates, One Time Waiver tax items and ATS minutes.
• Not every offence was reduced. Driving an uninsured vehicle (s.196) is ₹2,000 first / ₹4,000 subsequent in Gujarat — identical to the central figure, not a discount. Over-speeding for an LMV is ₹2,000, which is the top of the central ₹1,000–₹2,000 band rather than a reduction.
• There is no Gujarat compounding amount for drunken driving. Section 185 does not appear in the state penalty schedule at all, because section 200 of the MV Act does not list it as compoundable. You cannot settle a drunk-driving challan by paying online — it goes to court. Gujarat is also a prohibition state, so alcohol offences can attract separate liability under state prohibition law.
• Section 200 makes section 184 compoundable 'only to the extent of use of handheld communication devices'. So a mobile-phone charge can be compounded, but other dangerous-driving allegations under s.184 — including red-light jumping when booked under that section — are strictly court matters, even though the state chart prints compounding amounts against s.184 generally.
• Gujarat's notified figure for a two-wheeler used without registration is ₹1,000, which sits below the statutory floor in section 192(1) of ₹2,000 (a provision the 2019 amendment left untouched). Some official charts show the statutory figure — the e-challan states the payable amount.
• PUC is charged two different ways on the same official page: 'PUC certificate not obtained' sits under s.177 at ₹500 (₹1,000 on repeat), while a measured breach of emission standards under s.190(2) is ₹1,000 for two/three-wheelers and LMVs and ₹3,000 for other vehicles. Which one you get depends on how the officer books it.
• The Transport Department's own Act & Rules page still serves the pre-2019 text of the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 (Mvact1988.pdf), which contains no sections 194B or 194D at all — while the department's penalty page prices those very sections. Do not use that PDF to check current penalties.
• Gujarat runs two separate Virtual Court establishments, not one: Gujarat(Traffic Department) and Gujarat(Transport Department). Pick the wrong one and your challan will not be found.
• A challan already forwarded to the Virtual Court can still be paid on the Parivahan portal, and the portal warns explicitly not to pay in both places — double payment is a real risk here, and refunds are governed by High Court rules, not by MoRTH.
• Every Gujarat e-challan carries a Gujarati-language cyber-fraud warning telling recipients not to click suspicious links and never to download traffic-challan APK files arriving over WhatsApp or social media. MoRTH separately warns about a cloned site at echallanparivahan.in that mimics the official portal to collect payments for fake violations.
• There is no dedicated Gujarat e-challan helpline. Traffic issues route to the general Gujarat Police traffic line 1800 233 1122; portal and payment problems go to the national MoRTH helpdesk on 0120-4925505.
• No Gujarat-specific discount, amnesty or one-time-settlement scheme for pending traffic challans could be found on any official state source. The practical route to a reduced amount is a National Lok Adalat sitting, scheduled quarterly by the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority.

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