Ahmedabad Traffic Challan: Portal, Court & Towing

Last verified 28 Aug 2026

For the state-wide check and pay steps, official portals, notified fine amounts and dispute process, see the Gujarat e-Challan guide. This page covers only what is different inside Ahmedabad: the city’s own portal, its dedicated traffic-court benches, official towing charges, and what is and is not published about camera enforcement and contacts.

Which portal actually handles an Ahmedabad challan?

Ahmedabad runs its own site, payahmedabadechallan.org, whose page title reads “Ahmedabad City Police” and which introduces itself as “Welcome to Ahmedabad Traffic Police, Challan payment system.” The lookup form asks only for a challan number or vehicle number plus a captcha — no OTP step is shown on the entry page.

That portal is for older challans only. Its own Gujarati-language notice states that for e-challans dated 15 January 2023 or later, visit the Parivahan portal instead — echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan — a cutover date about five months earlier than the 13 June 2023 date the statewide Gujarat Police legacy portal uses (covered in the Gujarat guide). The same notice tells drivers to keep their Vahan-registered mobile number updated at MoRTH’s parivahan.gov.in/parivahan//node/1978 so e-challan SMS alerts reach them.

Where is an Ahmedabad traffic challan heard — court or Lok Adalat?

Ahmedabad is unusual among Gujarat cities in running dedicated traffic-court benches inside its Metropolitan Magistrate Courts, rather than routing challans through general criminal courts. The court’s own roster of Metropolitan Magistrates (current as of 28 May 2024) lists two benches by name:

• Addl. C.M.M. No. 6 (Mr. D.H. Khambhati) — handles I.P.C. cases and cases referred from the “Virtual Traffic Court (Vcourt Module) to Physical Court (CIS Module),” listed as the “Physical / Regular Traffic Court”, effective 1 May 2024.
• Addl. C.M.M. No. 16 (Mr. S.G. Dodiya) — covers Kalupur, Khadia, Special Operation Group (SOG) and Traffic N.C. cases, and separately runs a “Virtual Traffic Court ‘Plead Guilty’” list.

That is in addition to, not instead of, Gujarat’s statewide Virtual Court at vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ under “Gujarat(Traffic Department)” or “Gujarat(Transport Department),” which the Gujarat guide covers in full — a challan can be settled there directly. These Ahmedabad benches are where a contested or unresolved case lands within the physical court system. Beyond court, pending challans can also be taken up in bulk at a National Lok Adalat sitting, scheduled quarterly by the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority as described in the state guide; no Ahmedabad-specific DLSA address could be independently confirmed for this page, so check the sitting date and venue through the state guide’s Lok Adalat links.

What happens if my vehicle is towed in Ahmedabad?

Ahmedabad’s towing charges are fixed by a Police Commissioner’s office circular — No. J/725/Traffic/552/2017, dated 9 February 2017, issued from the Commissioner of Police’s office at Shahibaug and signed by the Additional Police Commissioner (Traffic), Ahmedabad City. Under section 127(1) and (2) of the Motor Vehicles Act, authorised uniformed police may remove a vehicle parked illegally or obstructively on a public road; section 127(3) makes the vehicle’s owner liable for the cost of that removal. The circular fixed the following towing charges, revising rates that the circular itself says had not changed in over 15 years:

• Two-wheeler: ₹250
• Three-wheeler: ₹350
• Four-wheeler: ₹500
• Other heavy vehicle: ₹1,000

If the vehicle is not collected within 48 hours of being towed, an additional safekeeping charge applies for every day after that — ₹100 per day for two/three/four-wheelers, and ₹200 per day for other heavy vehicles — until the vehicle is released.

How does Ahmedabad enforce with cameras?

Ahmedabad’s camera network runs through the Safe and Secure Ahmedabad (SASA) Integrated Command and Control Centre, described on the official Smart City Ahmedabad site as running “video walls for real-time monitoring of city functions through 6,000+ surveillance cameras” covering “traffic junctions” among other locations, alongside an Adaptive Traffic Control System (ATCS) that “monitor[s] real time traffic conditions and use[s] artificial intelligence as well as machine learning technology to improve signal timing.” No official page names which specific junctions those cameras enforce for which violation — there is no published camera-to-challan zone map, the same gap the Surat guide found for its own city.

What the challan portal does publish, unlike Surat’s, are the notified movement-restriction orders its cameras and officers enforce: a citywide order restricting heavy and medium goods, passenger, tractor-trailer and similarly slow-moving vehicles from entering Ahmedabad from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. (with named exceptions for RTO-office traffic, specific market deliveries, buses, ambulances and government vehicles), plus junction-specific orders such as a one-way restriction near Iskon and a no-right-turn order at Pakwan Cross Road. A vehicle booked for breaching one of these lands on the same challan system as any other violation.

Ahmedabad contacts

• Ahmedabad City Police (general emergency): 100 / 112.
• PayAhmedabadEchallan.org: no phone number or email is published on the portal; it offers only a “Police Officer Login” link and the downloadable circulars covering towing charges, compounding fees and specific restriction orders.

No Ahmedabad-specific traffic helpline number could be confirmed on an official source for this page; state-level contacts and the Gujarat Police traffic line are in the Gujarat e-Challan guide.

For everything else — checking a challan, paying it, notified fine amounts, and disputing one — go to the Gujarat e-Challan guide, the fines list, or disputing a wrong e-challan.

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