Andhra Pradesh Traffic Challan (AP e-Challan): Check Status & Pay Online

The short answer

To check a traffic challan in Andhra Pradesh, enter your vehicle number on Parivahan eChallan — check and pay challan (the page AP Police links to) or the national portal echallan.parivahan.gov.in.

Payment of an Andhra Pradesh traffic challan (AP e-challan) is done on the same official portal via UPI, Net banking, Debit card, Credit card, Cash or card at Mee Seva centres, Cash or card at AP Online centres.

Last verified 20 Aug 2026

How do I check an Andhra Pradesh traffic challan by vehicle number?

Open https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan — this is the exact page the AP Police portal (appolice.gov.in) opens from its e-Challan menu item. Andhra Pradesh is NOT on the NextGen portal, so do not use echallan.parivahan.nic.in.
Pick one of the three radio options above the input box: 'Challan Number', 'Vehicle Number' or 'DL Number'. Selecting one clears whatever you typed in the other two.
Type the value into the single text box. It auto-uppercases as you type and rejects anything that is not a letter or digit, so enter the registration as AP39XX1234 with no spaces or hyphens (max 20 characters; challan number max 32).
Enter the 6-character Captcha shown beside the box (there is a refresh icon if it is unreadable), then click 'Get Detail'.
Read the results table, whose columns are Violator Name, DL/RC Number, Challan No, Transaction ID, State, Department, Challan Date, Amount, Status and Payment Source, plus 'Challan Print' and 'Receipt' actions.
If the portal asks you to authenticate before showing full details, choose 'By Mobile Number Registered at Vahan' or 'By Aadhaar OTP' (12-digit Aadhaar or 16-digit Virtual Aadhaar ID); a DL number with date of birth also works. Enter the 6-digit OTP and click Verify OTP.
Watch for the red note 'This challan has been forwarded to Virtual Court ... but still it can be paid here.' Andhra Pradesh has no Virtual Court department onboarded, so for an AP challan this note should not normally appear.

How do I pay an Andhra Pradesh challan online?

Find the challan using the check steps above, then click the 'Pay Now' button on that challan's row in the results table.
Tick the disclaimer checkbox reading 'I have read the above Disclaimer and agree to proceed further.' before the portal will let you continue.
Complete OTP verification if prompted — 'By Mobile Number Registered at Vahan', or 'By Aadhaar OTP' using a 12-digit Aadhaar number or a 16-digit Virtual Aadhaar ID.
You are handed off to the payment gateway. Pay by UPI, net banking, debit card or credit card. Do not refresh or use the browser back button while the gateway is loading.
Once payment succeeds, use the 'Receipt' action in the results table to download proof, and 'Challan Print' for the challan itself. Keep the Transaction ID.
If money was debited but the challan still shows unpaid, use 'Check Pending Transaction' from the eChallan home page before paying again, and only then contact the NIC helpdesk on 0120-4925505 or helpdesk-echallan@gov.in.
To pay offline instead, take the posted challan to a Mee Seva or AP Online centre.

Which official portals show Andhra Pradesh challan status?

Parivahan eChallan — check and pay challan (the page AP Police links to)

echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan — check challan status and pay online.

Parivahan eChallan home — pending transaction check, receipts, grievance

echallan.parivahan.gov.in — check challan status and pay online.

appolice.gov.in — check challan status.

AP Mee Seva — assisted counters that collect compounding fees

ap.meeseva.gov.in/IMeeSeva2/IMeesevaHome.aspx — pay challans online.

Check by SMS or app

mParivahan — the MoRTH/NIC national mobile app (Android and iOS). It carries challan history for a vehicle or licence alongside virtual RC and virtual DL pulled live from the Vahan and Sarathi databases, which MoRTH has notified as legally valid documents.
No Andhra Pradesh-specific SMS challan service is documented on any official AP police or transport page; use the Parivahan portal or mParivahan rather than any third-party shortcode.

What happens with court challans in Andhra Pradesh?

Andhra Pradesh has no Virtual Court for traffic challans. The department dropdown on vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ was read in full on 12 August 2026 and lists only Assam, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal — neither Andhra Pradesh nor Telangana appears. So an AP challan that cannot be compounded (typically drunk driving under s.185, or a repeat or aggravated offence where the officer books a case rather than a compoundable challan) is filed before the ordinary jurisdictional magistrate's court for the place of the offence, and you must appear or be represented on the summons date rather than settling it on a portal. The Parivahan eChallan page does carry a generic Virtual Court banner reading "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." — but because no AP department is onboarded, that banner should not fire for an Andhra Pradesh challan; if it does, treat it as an anomaly and confirm with the issuing unit before paying twice. The realistic route to a reduced settlement in AP is the National Lok Adalat: the Andhra Pradesh State Legal Services Authority has notified on andhrapradesh.nalsa.gov.in that a National Lok Adalat will be held on 12-09-2026 throughout Andhra Pradesh, and states that "Litigant public may approach the Legal Services Institution in the nearest court compound for settling their cases through National Lok Adalat." A Lok Adalat award has the status of a civil court decree and is final and binding. Pending case status can be tracked through eCourts services.

What are the traffic fine amounts in Andhra Pradesh?

Andhra Pradesh traffic challan amounts by offence, 2026
Offence	Section	First offence	Repeat	In Andhra Pradesh
Dangerous driving and jumping a red light Court	Section 184	First offence: imprisonment for not less than 6 months and up to 1 year, or a fine of not less than ₹1,000 and up to ₹5,000, or both	Second or subsequent offence committed within three years of a previous similar offence: imprisonment up to 2 years, or a fine of ₹10,000, or both	₹1,500 first offence for a motorcycle/auto/LMV and ₹2,000 for other vehicles, rising to ₹10,000 for a second or subsequent offence within 3 years. Andhra Pradesh compounds s.184 ONLY for use of a handheld communication device — its notified schedule has no entry for jumping a red light, so a signal-jumping charge is not compoundable at the counter here. Notified in G.O.Ms.No.21, Transport, Roads & Buildings (Tr.I) Department, dated 21 October 2020 — notification under s.200 of the Motor Vehicles Act. State-notified
Riding without a helmet	Section 194D read with Section 129	₹1,000 fine and disqualification from holding a driving licence for three months	₹1,000 — Section 194D fixes a single amount and does not prescribe a higher figure for repeat offences; the Delhi Traffic Police schedule likewise shows ₹1,000 for first and subsequent offences	₹1,000 for riding a motorcycle without protective headgear (s.194D read with s.129). The same notification adds that, apart from the compounding fee, the licence is disqualified for 3 months for offences under s.194C and s.194D. Notified in G.O.Ms.No.21, Transport, Roads & Buildings (Tr.I) Department, dated 21 October 2020 — notification under s.200 of the Motor Vehicles Act. State-notified
Driving without insurance	Section 196 read with Section 146	First offence: imprisonment up to 3 months, or a fine of ₹2,000, or both	Subsequent offence: imprisonment up to 3 months, or a fine of ₹4,000, or both	₹2,000 for a first offence of driving without an insurance certificate (s.196), and ₹4,000 for a second or subsequent offence. Notified in G.O.Ms.No.21, Transport, Roads & Buildings (Tr.I) Department, dated 21 October 2020 — notification under s.200 of the Motor Vehicles Act. State-notified
Driving without a valid licence	Section 181 read with Section 3	Imprisonment up to 3 months, or a fine of ₹5,000, or both	₹5,000 — Section 181 sets one amount and does not prescribe a higher repeat figure; Delhi's published schedule also shows ₹5,000 for first and subsequent offences	₹5,000 for driving in contravention of s.3/4 under s.181 — the notified entry expressly groups underage driving with it, at the same amount for every vehicle class. Notified in G.O.Ms.No.21, Transport, Roads & Buildings (Tr.I) Department, dated 21 October 2020 — notification under s.200 of the Motor Vehicles Act. State-notified
Driving without a valid PUC certificate	Section 190(2)	First offence: imprisonment up to 3 months, or a fine which may extend to ₹10,000, or both — and disqualification from holding a licence for three months. There is no statutory minimum, but Delhi's notified schedule compounds it at the ₹10,000 ceiling	Second or subsequent offence: imprisonment up to 6 months, or a fine which may extend to ₹10,000, or both (the mandatory disqualification is written only into the first-offence limb)	Standard amount
Driving an unregistered vehicle (no RC)	Section 192 read with Section 39	First offence: a fine of not less than ₹2,000 and up to ₹5,000	Second or subsequent offence: imprisonment up to 1 year, or a fine of not less than ₹5,000 and up to ₹10,000, or both	Standard amount
Driving without a seat belt	Section 194B	₹1,000 for the driver, and ₹1,000 where a child under fourteen is not secured by a seat belt or child restraint system	₹1,000 — Section 194B prescribes a flat amount with no separate repeat-offence figure; Delhi's published schedule shows ₹1,000 for both first and subsequent offences	Standard amount
Drunken driving Court	Section 185	First offence: imprisonment up to 6 months, or a fine of ₹10,000, or both	Second or subsequent offence: imprisonment up to 2 years, or a fine of ₹15,000, or both — and, unlike before 2019, there is no three-year window, so any earlier conviction counts	Standard amount
Offences by juveniles (a minor driving a motor vehicle) Court	Section 199A	₹25,000 fine plus imprisonment up to 3 years for the juvenile's guardian or the vehicle's owner, under Section 199A(2) — on top of any penalty for the underlying traffic offence itself, and separate from the juvenile's own liability for that offence under Section 199A(6)	Same ₹25,000 fine and up to 3 years' imprisonment for the guardian or owner — Section 199A sets no separate, higher amount for a repeat offence	Standard amount
Using a mobile phone while driving	Section 184, Explanation clause (c)	First offence under Section 184: imprisonment for not less than 6 months and up to 1 year, or a fine of not less than ₹1,000 and up to ₹5,000, or both. State compounding amounts vary widely within that band — Delhi's schedule pins it at the ₹5,000 ceiling, while Maharashtra grades it by vehicle class at ₹1,000 for a 2/3-wheeler, ₹2,000 for an LMV and ₹4,000 for other vehicles	Second or subsequent offence within three years of a previous similar offence: imprisonment up to 2 years, or a fine of ₹10,000, or both — Delhi's schedule shows ₹10,000 for a subsequent offence	₹1,500 first offence for a motorcycle/auto/LMV and ₹2,000 for other vehicles, rising to ₹10,000 for a second or subsequent offence within 3 years. Andhra Pradesh compounds handheld-device use under s.184 dangerous driving, which is the only conduct its schedule brings under that section. Notified in G.O.Ms.No.21, Transport, Roads & Buildings (Tr.I) Department, dated 21 October 2020 — notification under s.200 of the Motor Vehicles Act. State-notified
No Parking / Obstructive Parking	Section 122 read with Section 177	Fine which may extend to ₹500 for a first offence under Section 177 — Delhi Traffic Police's published schedule lists improper/obstructive parking at a flat ₹500 for a first violation	Fine which may extend to ₹1,500 for a second or subsequent offence under Section 177 — Delhi's schedule likewise shows ₹1,500 for a repeat obstructive-parking violation	Standard amount
Overloading a goods or passenger vehicle	Section 194	₹20,000 plus ₹2,000 for every tonne of excess load, plus liability for off-loading charges, under Section 194(1) — the vehicle cannot proceed until the excess load is removed	Same ₹20,000 plus ₹2,000/tonne — Section 194(1) does not set a separate, higher amount for a second or subsequent offence	Standard amount
Overspeeding	Section 183(1) read with Section 112	Light motor vehicle: not less than ₹1,000 and up to ₹2,000. Medium or heavy goods or passenger vehicle: not less than ₹2,000 and up to ₹4,000	Same money range, but for a second or subsequent offence under Section 183(1) the driving licence of the driver shall be impounded as provided in Section 206(4)	₹1,000 for a light motor vehicle and ₹2,000 for a medium or heavy goods/passenger vehicle (s.183). The notification also records that the driving licence is impounded under s.206(4) for a second or subsequent s.183 offence. Notified in G.O.Ms.No.21, Transport, Roads & Buildings (Tr.I) Department, dated 21 October 2020 — notification under s.200 of the Motor Vehicles Act. State-notified

Things specific to Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is NOT on the NextGen eChallan portal. The legacy portal's notice board lists AN, AR, AS, BR, CH, CG, DD, GA, HP, HR, JH, JK, KA, LA, MH, ML, MN, MZ, NL, PB, PY, SK, TN, UK, WB, RJ and GJ as the states to use echallan.parivahan.nic.in — Andhra Pradesh is absent, so AP challans remain on the legacy echallan.parivahan.gov.in.
AP no longer runs its own challan portal. Both historic state URLs are dead: apechallan.org returns a DNS SERVFAIL and echallan.appolice.gov.in has no A record (both re-tested 12-Aug-2026). AP Police's own site now sends the e-Challan menu item out to echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan.
Andhra Pradesh has no Virtual Court. The vcourts.gov.in department dropdown, read in full on 12-Aug-2026, contains 22 states and UTs and lists neither Andhra Pradesh nor Telangana, so AP court challans go to the ordinary jurisdictional magistrate rather than an online court.
The AP Transport Department publishes no current fine schedule. Its 'Penalties' page (aptransport.org/html/penalties.html) contains only the sentence 'This page will be updated soon...!', and its G.Os & Circulars page (taxation_notifications.php?id=1) returns HTTP 500. There is no consolidated state-notified post-2019 compounding chart on any AP transport or home department site found.
Every published AP police fine figure ends in 35 — ₹1,035, ₹2,035, ₹185, ₹335, ₹785, ₹5,035, ₹235 — a uniform ₹35 add-on over the statutory amount. This is consistent with a fixed user or service charge on top of the compounding fee, but no AP notification confirming the ₹35 component could be found, so the composition is inferred, not verified.
AP's overspeeding compounding rate for light motor vehicles, ₹785 (i.e. ₹750 plus the ₹35 add-on), sits below the ₹1,000 central figure for s.183 under the MV (Amendment) Act 2019. Some official charts show the statutory figure — the e-challan states the payable amount.
G.O.Ms.No.108 dated 18-08-2011 — a scanned, pre-2019-amendment PDF that used to be the only compounding G.O. still hosted by the transport department, and was never read as a current AP schedule even while it was up — is no longer reachable at all: re-checked 11-Sep-2026 and aptransport.org now 404s on the pdf_uploads path, while the rest of the site (including the still-placeholder Penalties page) loads normally. It carried no live figure on this page (every fine_overrides amount already sources to the current G.O.Ms.No.21 notification below), so nothing here needed re-verifying — the dead link has simply been dropped from sources.
The contact e-mail printed on AP Police's own Contact Us page, adg_l@apolice.gov.in, is on a domain that does not resolve; only appolice.gov.in (with the double p) exists. It appears to be a typo, so use the DG Control landline instead.
No AP-specific SMS challan service is documented anywhere official. The Parivahan portal itself warns: 'Please beware of fraudulent websites and mobile apps impersonating our echallan services... We never request your password, OTP, payment details or sensitive personal information via calls, emails, or messages or links.'
Andhra Pradesh's entire district-police website estate went offline: srikakulampolice, prakasampolice, kadapapolice and every other district subdomain under ap.gov.in stopped resolving by 20 August 2026. Fine amounts on this page were previously taken from those charts; they are now sourced to the state's own notification, G.O.Ms.No.21, Transport, Roads & Buildings (Tr.I) Department, dated 21 October 2020 — notification under s.200 of the Motor Vehicles Act, retrieved from the AP Government Orders register. Where the two differ, the notification governs.
Monthly re-verification attempted 01-Sep-2026: goir.ap.gov.in (the G.O.Ms.No.21 register that is this page's only source for every fine_overrides figure), appolice.gov.in and ap.meeseva.gov.in all failed to load — every attempt reset mid-handshake rather than returning a 404 or DNS failure, consistent with a legacy-TLS/cipher issue on the fetching side rather than the sites being down (all three hostnames still resolve in DNS). The parts of this page that COULD be re-opened today checked out unchanged: vcourts.gov.in still lists neither Andhra Pradesh nor Telangana in its department dropdown, andhrapradesh.nalsa.gov.in still confirms the 12-09-2026 National Lok Adalat, and aptransport.org/html/penalties.html is still the 'This page will be updated soon...!' placeholder. The G.O.Ms.No.21 fine figures themselves could not be re-read this cycle, so they are carried forward unchanged rather than re-verified — last_verified is not bumped for this run; re-attempt goir.ap.gov.in next cycle.

Frequently asked questions

Which website do I actually use to check and pay an Andhra Pradesh e-challan?

Use https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan. That is the exact URL the Andhra Pradesh Police portal at appolice.gov.in opens from its e-Challan menu item. Andhra Pradesh is not one of the 27 states and UTs the legacy portal redirects to the NextGen eChallan site, so AP challans stay on the legacy Parivahan portal.

Is apechallan.org still the official AP e-challan website?

No. As of 12 August 2026 apechallan.org does not resolve in DNS at all, and neither does the older echallan.appolice.gov.in. Both are dead. This matters because a great many blogs still recommend it. Since the domain is unregistered or unresolving, anything that later appears on it should be treated as untrusted. Use the Parivahan portal instead.

Does Andhra Pradesh have a Virtual Court for traffic challans?

No. The department dropdown on vcourts.gov.in was checked on 12 August 2026 and lists 22 states and union territories; Andhra Pradesh is not among them, and neither is Telangana. An AP challan that goes to court is heard by the ordinary jurisdictional magistrate on a summons date. The practical way to get a reduction is a National Lok Adalat — APSLSA has notified one for 12-09-2026 across Andhra Pradesh.

Is the Andhra Pradesh challan amount ₹1,000 or ₹1,035?

The notified amount is ₹1,000. Andhra Pradesh's compounding fees are set by G.O.Ms.No.21, Transport, Roads & Buildings (Tr.I) Department, dated 21 October 2020 — notification under s.200 of the Motor Vehicles Act, and that schedule uses round figures — ₹1,000 for no helmet, ₹2,000 for no insurance, ₹5,000 for driving without a licence. District police fine charts used to show these figures with ₹35 added, and this page previously reported the inflated numbers; those charts are no longer online and no official source states a ₹35 charge or what it is for. The notification itself also provides that the compounding fee for an offence 'shall not exceed the maximum fine prescribed in the relevant penal section', which the statutory ₹1,000 helmet fine would cap. If a portal asks you for more than the notified amount, the difference is a payment charge rather than the fine — check the breakup on the payment page before paying.

Is there an official AP SMS service or app to check challans?

There is no Andhra Pradesh state SMS challan service documented on any official AP page. The only officially documented app route is mParivahan, the MoRTH and NIC national app, which carries challan history alongside virtual RC and DL pulled from the Vahan and Sarathi databases. Anything advertising an AP-specific challan SMS shortcode should be treated with suspicion — the Parivahan portal itself warns to 'beware of fraudulent websites and mobile apps impersonating our echallan services'.

Sources

echallan.parivahan.gov.in — https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan
echallan.parivahan.gov.in — https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/
echallan.parivahan.nic.in — https://echallan.parivahan.nic.in/
appolice.gov.in — https://appolice.gov.in/
appolice.gov.in — https://appolice.gov.in/main-FCESBURP.js
goir.ap.gov.in — https://goir.ap.gov.in/dgo.ashx?gid=463155&fileType=E
vcourts.gov.in — https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/
andhrapradesh.nalsa.gov.in — https://andhrapradesh.nalsa.gov.in/
www.aptransport.org — https://www.aptransport.org/html/penalties.html
aptransport.org — https://aptransport.org/html/taxation_notifications.php?id=1
ap.meeseva.gov.in — https://ap.meeseva.gov.in/IMeeSeva2/IMeesevaHome.aspx
goir.ap.gov.in — https://goir.ap.gov.in/

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