A video on Facebook has garnered over 9.8 million views in which a police officer explained how to avoid hefty fines under Motor Vehicles Amendment Act 2019. cop explained that required documents can be later produced in front of officials and n person will have to pay Rs 100 inste of huge amount mentioned in challan. But date of documents should be earlier than date of challan.

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'People encouraging corruption'

police official said that commuters encour corruption by t hering to rules. He said that a helmet worth Rs 1,000 will save lives of people and future of ir families who are dependent. minimum penalty for violating traffic rules under latest act was increased from Rs 100 to Rs 500, penalty for driving a vehicle without a license was increased to Rs 5,000 from Rs 1,000. 

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Paying full amount for lack of awareness 

police said that some people are paying full amount of challan because of a lack of awareness. While many states me several changes to new traffic laws, it is still applicable in a few states in its original form. Odisha was first state to direct its officials to t go aggressively on overdrive after several cases of hefty penalties in state surfaced. Later, Gujarat also me some changes to provide relaxation to commuters.

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Cases of hefty fines

A truck driver in Sambalpur district of Odisha was fined a whopping Rs 86,500 for violating several traffic rules last week. im of challan went viral. He was penalised for allowing an unauthorised person to drive (Rs 5,000), driving without a licence (Rs 5,000), overloing with an excess of 18 tonnes (Rs 56,000), carrying over dimension projections (Rs 20,000) and general offence (Rs 500). driver finally paid Rs 70,000 after negotiating with authorities for more than five hours.

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