Uttar Pradesh e-Challan: Check Status & Pay Online

To check a traffic challan in Uttar Pradesh, enter your vehicle number on e-Challan (national MoRTH portal) — check & pay UP challans or the national portal echallan.parivahan.gov.in. Payment is done on the same official portal via Online on https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan — select the challan, click "Pay Now", clear OTP verification if prompted, and complete payment on the integrated gateway (the gateway's card/net-banking/UPI choices only appear once a live challan is selected, so they could not be catalogued from a public page), Virtual Court ePay gateway at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/index.php for challans forwarded to court — pick "Uttar Pradesh(Traffic Department)", search the case, plead guilty and pay; a receipt is issued immediately, On the spot to the compounding officer — UP's section-200 schedule authorises gazetted Civil/Traffic Police officers, Traffic Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors and all Police Station Officers within the district, plus ARTO/PTO-rank transport enforcement officers, to compound; such challans surface on the national portal with payment source recorded and status displayed as "Disposed", Settlement at a National Lok Adalat sitting organised by the UP State Legal Services Authority / District Legal Services Authority, for challans that are already pending before a court.

Last verified: 12 Aug 2026

How to check your Uttar Pradesh challan

Open the national e-challan portal at https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan. Uttar Pradesh is still served by this legacy portal — it has NOT migrated to the NextGen portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in.
Fill in exactly one of the three boxes on the form: "Challan Number", "Vehicle Number" or "DL Number". The current UI does not ask for a chassis or engine number.
Type the "Captcha" shown next to the boxes (use the refresh icon if it is unreadable) and click the "Get Detail" button.
Read the results grid. Its columns are Violator Name, DL/RC Number, Challan No, Transaction ID, State, Department, Challan Date, Amount, Status, Payment Source, Challan Print, Receipt and Transaction History. A UP challan carries "Uttar Pradesh" in the State column.
If the portal demands verification before showing details, choose one of "By Mobile Number Registered at Vahan", "By Aadhaar OTP" or "Virtual Aadhaar ID" — or the DL Number + Date of Birth route — click "Send OTP", enter the code and click "Verify OTP".
Use "Challan Print" to download the challan PDF, "Verify"/"Receipt" to pull the payment receipt, and "Transaction History" to see earlier payment attempts on that challan.
If a row carries a Virtual Court notice, cross-check the case at https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/index.php by picking "Uttar Pradesh(Traffic Department)" and searching by Challan/Vehicle No., CNR, Mobile Number or Party Name.

How to pay a Uttar Pradesh challan online

Look the challan up first on https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/index/accused-challan (Challan Number / Vehicle Number / DL Number + Captcha, then "Get Detail"), then click "Pay Now" on the row you want to clear.
If the challan has already been sent to court the portal shows this warning before it lets you pay: "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." Tick the agreement box to continue — and pay in one place only, never both.
Complete OTP verification when prompted — mobile number registered at Vahan, Aadhaar OTP, Virtual Aadhaar ID, or DL Number with Date of Birth — then click "Verify OTP".
Finish the payment on the gateway that opens, then download proof through the "Receipt" / "Verify" link back in the results grid.
If money is debited but the challan still reads "Pending", go to https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/payment-verification, search by Challan Number or Vehicle Number, then verify using "Challan Number / GRN Number" or "Transaction ID".
Offences Uttar Pradesh has not made compoundable — drunk driving (s.185) and dangerous driving other than handheld phone use (s.184 a, b, d, e, f) — have no online payment route at all and must be settled before the court.
To dispute rather than pay, raise a ticket at https://echallan.parivahan.gov.in/gsticket/ with Challan Number, name, phone, vehicle/DL number, challan state, an issue category from the fixed list (e.g. "Wrong Vehicle Number Entered By Officer", "Double Payment Done", "Virtual Court") and a description of up to 500 characters, plus an optional JPEG/PNG image.

Official portals for Uttar Pradesh

Portal	Use for
e-Challan (national MoRTH portal) — check & pay UP challans	Check & pay
e-Challan — check a pending / stuck payment transaction	check
e-Challan grievance & dispute ticket system	check
Virtual Courts (e-Challan) — select "Uttar Pradesh(Traffic Department)"	Check & pay
UP Transport Department — official e-Challan information page	check
UP Police Traffic Directorate Portal — official challan links	check

Check by SMS or app

mParivahan — the official MoRTH/NIC citizen app (https://mparivahan.parivahan.gov.in/). It is the national app for RC/DL and Parivahan services; UP Police's own Traffic Directorate Portal page links to the Parivahan "M Parivahan Mobile Number Updation" service so that the number on record receives challan alerts.
SMS and e-mail alerts generated by the e-Challan system itself to the mobile number registered in Vahan — the official NIC e-Challan user manual lists "e-payment for services, alerts through SMS and emails" as built-in functions. There is no separate UP-only challan-by-SMS shortcode documented on any official page.
Update the mobile number linked to your vehicle at https://vahan.parivahan.gov.in/vahanservice/vahan/ui/otherservices/editMobileNumber.xhtml — this is the link UP Police publishes, and it is what makes app/SMS challan alerts and the "By Mobile Number Registered at Vahan" OTP route work.

Court challans in Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh does have Virtual Court handling for traffic challans. On https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/index.php the department dropdown carries "Uttar Pradesh(Traffic Department)" (internal code UPVC01) — and only the Traffic Department, unlike states such as Assam, Gujarat and Uttarakhand which also list a Transport Department virtual court. An enforcement officer can forward a challan to court directly from the NIC e-Challan app, choosing the court from an assigned list. Once it is there, the accused searches the case on the Virtual Courts portal by Challan/Vehicle No., CNR, Mobile Number or Party Name, opens "View", and then either pleads guilty and pays or asks to contest. Either choice needs OTP verification. Choosing to pay routes you "to the payment gateway through ePay for further processing", and a receipt is issued immediately and can be re-printed later via Search Case > View > Reprint > OTP verification. Choosing to contest produces an acknowledgement naming the physical court and the date on which the case is listed. Two Uttar Pradesh specifics matter here. First, some offences can only end up in court: UP's own section-200 compounding schedule leaves out s.185 (drunk driving) and every clause of s.184 except (c), so red-light jumping and drink-driving cannot be compounded by the police at all. Second, a court-forwarded UP challan can still be paid on echallan.parivahan.gov.in, which warns explicitly that you must pay in one place only — either the e-challan portal or the Virtual Court, never both. Separately, challans already pending before a court can be taken up at National Lok Adalats run by the UP State Legal Services Authority and its 74 District Legal Services Authorities; NALSA's own disposal records show National Lok Adalat sittings held on 14 March 2026 and 9 May 2026. Any reduction is decided at the sitting itself and is not a fixed published percentage.

Traffic fine amounts in Uttar Pradesh

Offence	Section	First offence	Repeat	In Uttar Pradesh
Dangerous driving and jumping a red light	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	Not compoundable in Uttar Pradesh — only s.184(c) (handheld phone) appears in the state schedule, and s.184 clauses a, b, d, e and f, which include jumping a red light, are expressly carved out of the Rs 500 s.177 line too. These go to court.
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	Standard amount
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	Standard amount
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	Standard amount
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	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	Not compoundable in Uttar Pradesh — s.185 is absent from the state's section-200 compounding schedule, so it cannot be settled by paying the officer or paying online; the challan goes to court.
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	Rs 1,000 for a first offence and Rs 10,000 for a second or subsequent offence, compounded under s.184(c) read with rule 21 CMVR — well below the Rs 5,000 top-of-range figure most charts quote for section 184.
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)	Rs 2,000 for a light motor vehicle and Rs 4,000 for a medium or heavy passenger/goods vehicle under s.183(1) — UP fixes the top of the central Rs 1,000-2,000 / Rs 2,000-4,000 band. The same row also carries a "Not compoundable" note.

Things specific to Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh is NOT on the NextGen e-Challan portal. The banner on echallan.parivahan.gov.in names the migrated states as 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 — UP is absent, and the "UK" on that list is Uttarakhand, which is the single most common mix-up.
The old UP Traffic Police challan site is dead. traffic.uppolice.gov.in and traffic.uppolice.gov.in/MyChallan returned no response at all over either http or https when tested on 12 August 2026, yet a large number of guides still send people there. UP Police's own Traffic Directorate Portal page no longer links to it — its "Click Here for view and pay online challan" link now points at echallan.parivahan.gov.in.
The national grievance form at echallan.parivahan.gov.in/gsticket/ tells non-Delhi users to go to the NextGen portal and its eligible-state list is the same 27-state NextGen list that excludes UP. UP complainants are effectively left with the helpdesk phone/email, or the Virtual Court route for court-forwarded challans.
UP's notified compounding schedule is not published as a gazette PDF. It sits as an HTML table titled "DETAIL OF COMPOUNDING CHARGES(SHAMAN SHULK) AGAINST CHALLANS FOR THE TRAFFIC RULES VIOLATIONS" inside the UP Police Traffic Directorate "About Us" page, opening with the section-200 recital "the Governor is pleased to authorize the officers mentioned in column-2...". It carries no notification number and no date.
The same official page is partly stale: its "Important Acts and Rules in Connection with Traffic" list stops at 2001-era central amendments and still frames the MV Act 1939 as the predecessor — even though the compounding table itself is clearly post-2019 (it includes s.194B(2) child restraint, s.184(c) handheld device and s.194D helmet at the 2019 figures).
Drunk driving (s.185) and dangerous driving other than handheld phone use (s.184 clauses a, b, d, e, f — which include jumping a red light) are absent from UP's compounding schedule, and the s.177 general line expressly carves out "offences mentioned in Section 184 a, b, d, e, f". Those challans cannot be compounded or paid away and go to court.
Overspeeding in UP is compounded at the top of the statutory band, not the bottom: Rs 2,000 for a light motor vehicle and Rs 4,000 for a medium/heavy passenger or goods vehicle, where the central s.183 range is Rs 1,000-2,000 and Rs 2,000-4,000.
Failure to produce documents is a separate and far cheaper line than the underlying offence in UP: Rs 500 first / Rs 1,500 subsequent under s.177 read with s.130, and the official chart adds the note "Documents in electronic form in Degiloker will be accepted" (sic — DigiLocker).
A challan already forwarded to Virtual Court can still be paid on the e-challan portal. The portal shows a disclaimer you must accept, warning you not to also pay at the Virtual Court — double payment is a real risk here, and "Double Payment Done" is one of the standing grievance categories.
Cash and offline-compounded challans display as "Disposed" rather than "Paid" on the national portal (the portal maps a status of 'Cash' to the label 'Disposed'), which regularly confuses people hunting for a "Paid" marker.
A legacy UP Police Act 1861 compounding table still sits on the same official page, showing Rs 100 for offences like "Violation of traffic signals /signs" and "Parking a vehicle in the restricted area" under s.31/32, and Rs 50 under s.34. These are old police-act amounts and are not what an MV Act e-challan will charge.
UP's Virtual Court covers only the Traffic Department (UPVC01). There is no Transport Department virtual court for UP, so transport/RTO enforcement challans do not have that route.

Frequently asked questions

Which portal do I use for a UP e-challan — echallan.parivahan.gov.in or the NextGen site?

Use echallan.parivahan.gov.in. Uttar Pradesh has not migrated to the NextGen portal at echallan.parivahan.nic.in; the migration banner lists 27 states and UTs and UP is not among them. The "UK" on that list is Uttarakhand, not Uttar Pradesh, which is the mistake people make most often.

The UP Traffic Police site traffic.uppolice.gov.in will not open. Is it down permanently?

It gave no response at all over either http or https when checked on 12 August 2026, and UP Police's own Traffic Directorate Portal page no longer links to it. That page's "view and pay online challan" link now points to echallan.parivahan.gov.in, so treat the old MyChallan address as retired.

Can I pay a UP drunk-driving or red-light-jumping challan online?

Generally no. Uttar Pradesh's section-200 compounding schedule leaves out s.185 (drunk driving) entirely, and of section 184 it lists only clause (c), handheld phone use. Red-light jumping falls under s.184(a), which the schedule also carves out of the general s.177 line, so both offences are prosecuted in court rather than settled by payment.

My challan says it has been forwarded to Virtual Court. Where should I pay?

Either place, but only once. You can search the case at vcourts.gov.in under "Uttar Pradesh(Traffic Department)" using the challan or vehicle number, or pay on the e-challan portal after accepting its warning, which reads: "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."

What are the helmet and seat-belt fines in Uttar Pradesh?

Rs 1,000 each in UP's notified compounding schedule — helmet under s.194D read with rule 121 of the UP Motor Vehicle Rules 1998, and seat belt under s.194B(1). Carrying a child under 14 without a safety belt or child restraint is also Rs 1,000 under s.194B(2), and triple-riding a motorcycle is Rs 1,000 under s.194C.

I was challaned only for not carrying my licence or RC. Is that the same as driving without one?

No. UP treats failure to present the RC, permit, fitness certificate, driving licence or PUC on demand as its own line — Rs 500 for a first offence and Rs 1,500 for a repeat, under s.177 read with s.130. The official chart also notes that documents held electronically in DigiLocker are accepted, so a valid DigiLocker copy should avoid this challan.

Money was debited but the challan still shows Pending. What do I do?

Go to echallan.parivahan.gov.in/payment-verification, search by Challan Number or Vehicle Number, then verify using either "Challan Number / GRN Number" or "Transaction ID". If it is still unresolved, contact the e-challan helpdesk on 0120-4925505 between 6:00 AM and 10:00 PM, or email helpdesk-echallan[at]gov[dot]in, and keep the transaction ID handy.

Can a UP traffic challan be reduced at Lok Adalat?

Challans already pending before a court can be taken up at National Lok Adalats organised by the UP State Legal Services Authority and its 74 District Legal Services Authorities. NALSA's own disposal records show sittings held on 14 March 2026 and 9 May 2026. The reduction, if any, is decided at the sitting itself — no fixed discount percentage is published in advance.

How much is overspeeding in Uttar Pradesh?

UP compounds it at the maximum of the central band: Rs 2,000 for a light motor vehicle and Rs 4,000 for a medium or heavy passenger or goods vehicle, under s.183(1). The central Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019 allows a range of Rs 1,000-2,000 and Rs 2,000-4,000 respectively, plus impounding of the driving licence for a second or subsequent offence.

Sources

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