pune the traffic police have started dragging traffic rule violators to court for pending echallans and nonpayment of fines in a bid to discipline vehicular movement in the city during a mahalokadalat on saturday last week as many as 1032 traffic rule violators were made to visit the motor vehicles court in shivajinagar and pending fines to the tune of around rs327 lakh were recovereddeputy commissioner of police traffic pankaj deshmukh said the mahalokadalat was a muchneeded initiative to recover the pending fines the message to the traffic rule violators is loud and clear they must pay the pending fines traffic offences registered through cctv cameras and other modes are regularly registered at the motor vehicles court around 3300 summons were issued to the traffic violators of whom 1032 came to the court and were penalized he said activist vivek velankar said taking the violators to the court would have a better impact on traffic management provided the initiative was consistent its a good start and such actions need to be maintained the efficacy of the initiative depends on how many cases the traffic police send to the court its also to be seen how many cases the court can handle he said the pune traffic police had in the past taken a number of measures to recover fines pending in the past three years under former dcp traffic tejaswi satpute the department had started making visits to the traffic violators homes for the recovery of the pending penalties the names of the top 100 traffic violators were released on the social media as well this was followed by collection of pending fines in the range of rs 1000025000 through regular nakabandi