E Challan MP. Every pending challan, by vehicle number.

Enter your Madhya Pradesh registration number and see every challan still open against the vehicle: what the offence was, when and where, and what it costs. Free, and you do not need the challan number. The fine amounts on this page are the ones Madhya Pradesh notified for itself, which are lower than the national figures most sites reprint.

Reviewed by Abhishek Gupta Automotive Editor Portals re-checked 6 Oct 2026

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Why the cover is worth it

Third party cover is compulsory. Driving without it is an offence under the Motor Vehicles Act — ₹2,000 for a first offence, more for a repeat.
Third party liability for injury or death is unlimited. One serious accident can cost more than the car is worth.
Third party alone pays nothing towards your own car. Comprehensive adds theft, fire, flood and collision damage to it.
Every claim-free year cuts your own damage premium, up to 50% after five. Let the policy lapse for more than 90 days and that discount is gone.
IRDAI fixes the third party rate, so it is identical everywhere. Insurers only compete on the own damage part, the optional covers and the claim service.

What happens if a challan stays unpaid

A challan does not expire. It stays against the vehicle until it is paid or a court disposes of it.
After about 60 days it is sent to court. From there it is a case under the Motor Vehicles Act, not a fine you can clear online.
A court challan takes 45–60 days to settle, against 1–3 hours for one paid online — and court fees make it cost more.
The RTO will not clear an ownership transfer, an NOC, an RC renewal or a fitness certificate while challans are pending. In practice that blocks selling the car.
Five or more challans in one year can disqualify the driving licence under the rules in force from January 2026. Some states act at three.
Once it is in court, a National Lok Adalat can compound it at a reduced amount — commonly 30–50% less. Those sittings are quarterly, so it is a wait, not a shortcut.

What a traffic offence actually costs in Madhya Pradesh

Each state sets its own compounding amounts under section 200 of the Motor Vehicles Act, and Madhya Pradesh’s are not the central figures. A first helmet offence is ₹300 here, against the ₹1,000 you will see quoted nationally.

Offence	Section	MP amount	Repeat	How it splits
Riding without a helmet	194D	₹300	Same again	All vehicles
Not wearing a seat belt	194B	₹500	Same again	All vehicles
Motorcycle safety rules (pillion, carriage)	194C	₹500	Same again	All vehicles
General offences not separately listed	177	₹500	Same again	All vehicles
Over-speeding	183(1)	₹1,000 to ₹3,000	Same again	Non-transport at the lower end, transport at the higher
Driving without a valid licence	181	₹1,000 to ₹5,000	Same again	Non-transport / transport
Dangerous driving, or a phone in your hand	184	₹1,000 to ₹3,000	₹2,000 to ₹10,000	By vehicle type
Driving without insurance	196	₹1,000 to ₹5,000	Same again	Motorcycle / light / medium and heavy
Unregistered or unfit vehicle	192	₹2,000 to ₹5,000	₹3,000 to ₹10,000	Two and three-wheeler / light / medium and heavy
Carrying more passengers than allowed	194A	₹200 per extra passenger	Same again	All vehicles
Not giving way to an emergency vehicle	194E	₹10,000	Same again	All vehicles
Cut silencer or excessive horn	194F	₹1,000	₹2,000	All vehicles
Racing or a speed trial	189	₹5,000	₹10,000	All vehicles
Driving while unfit to drive	186	₹1,000	₹2,000	All vehicles
Refusing to stop, weigh or unload	194(2)	₹20,000	Same again	All vehicles

Compounding amounts notified by the Government of Madhya Pradesh on 6 March 2023, superseding all earlier notifications. These are what an offence settles at in MP, not the central Motor Vehicles Act maximums, which are higher and are what most other sites reprint. Where a range is shown, the notification splits the offence by vehicle class or by transport versus non-transport use. The figure that applies to you is the one on your own challan, which the lookup above shows.

Drink driving is not on this list, and that matters

Section 185 does not appear in Madhya Pradesh’s compounding notification, because drink driving is not a compoundable offence. It cannot be settled by paying anything, to anyone, on any website. It goes to court. If a site offers to clear a drink-driving challan online, that is the point to stop and read more carefully.

How to check a Madhya Pradesh challan

1
Enter your MP number

Your registration number and a mobile number. No challan number, no driving licence number, and nothing else.
2
See every open challan

Offence, date, location and amount for each one, split into what can be paid online now and what has gone to court and cannot.
3
Clear what is payable

Tick the challans you want, see the fine, the service charge and the GST separately, and pay in one go.

MP registration series, and why it does not decide where you pay

Series	District	Note
MP-04	Bhopal
MP-07	Gwalior
MP-09	Indore	The state’s busiest series
MP-13	Ujjain
MP-20	Jabalpur

Madhya Pradesh runs more than fifty registration series, all of the form MP-NN. The two digits are the district that registered the vehicle, not the district where a challan was raised, which is why a Bhopal car can hold an Indore challan and the lookup still finds it.

Where an MP challan actually lives

Madhya Pradesh runs its own challan portal at echallan.mponline.gov.in, titled “e-Challan Payment : Madhya Pradesh Police”. It is operated by MPOnline, the state government’s service-delivery arm, for MP Police, so it is the state’s own route rather than a private one.

The national Parivahan system, echallan.parivahan.gov.in, carries MP challans too. The two are not alternatives so much as two windows onto overlapping records: a challan raised on an MP Police handheld shows on the state portal first, while camera challans and anything raised against an out-of-state vehicle are more reliably found nationally. If one shows nothing, it is worth checking the other before concluding you are clear.

Two addresses you will see quoted elsewhere, echallan.mppolice.gov.in and mptrafficpolice.gov.in, do not resolve at all. And transport.mp.gov.in, which is live, handles fitness certificates, NOCs, RC renewal, road tax and permits; it has no challan service. Both checked 6 October 2026.

echallan.mponline.gov.in

MP Police, via MPOnline. The state route.

echallan.parivahan.gov.in

The national system. No service fee.

All addresses on this page checked 6 Oct 2026.

Paying an MP challan without a card

An MPOnline kiosk

MPOnline is the Madhya Pradesh government’s own service-counter network, with kiosks in most towns in the state. Take the registration number; the operator looks the challan up and gives you a printed receipt. Useful if you would rather pay cash than enter card details.

On the spot, to the officer

An MP traffic police officer who stops you can raise and settle the challan on the handheld machine there and then. Insist on the printed receipt. That slip is your proof, and the record takes a few hours to show as paid.

At the traffic police office

Each city’s traffic police office in MP will accept payment against a challan at the counter. Worth the trip only if the challan is not showing online, which usually means it was raised in the last day or two.

MPOnline’s counter finder is at mponline.gov.in.

A wrong MP challan, and what to do about it

1 Open the challan and look at the photograph and the location first. In MP as everywhere, the common cause of a wrong challan is a misread plate: an 0 for a D, a 3 for an 8.
2 If it is genuinely not yours, raise a grievance on the e-Challan portal against that challan number. Keep the grievance number.
3 Attach whatever proves it: the sale papers if you had already sold the vehicle, the policy if it is an insurance challan, the PUC certificate, or dashcam video.
4 If the challan has already gone to court, the grievance route is closed and it becomes a Virtual Court matter at vcourts.gov.in. An MP challan referred to court is settled there, not on any private website including this one.

National Lok Adalats sit roughly quarterly and MP’s district courts take challan matters at them, often compounding at a materially lower amount. If a court challan is not urgent, the next Lok Adalat date is usually worth waiting for.

MP’s referred challans are settled at vcourts.gov.in.

Checking a challan in an MP city

There is no separate lookup per city. Every MP challan sits in the same national record, and searching by vehicle number finds it whichever city raised it. What changes city to city is where the cameras are and who you deal with if something is wrong.

Indore MP-09

Indore’s BRTS runs along the AB Road corridor through Vijay Nagar, and the junctions on it are among the most heavily signalled in the state. If you drive that stretch daily, a camera challan is the kind that arrives without anyone having stopped you.

Check an Indore challan →

Bhopal MP-04

Cameras at Roshanpura, Ganesh Mandir, VIP and the Link Roads raise most of the capital’s challans. Bhopal Traffic Police booked 27,152 violations across five months and not one of them was for drink driving.

Check a Bhopal challan →

Gwalior MP-07

Gwalior vehicles carry the MP-07 series. As everywhere in the state, a challan raised here is payable from anywhere, including at an MPOnline kiosk in another district.

Jabalpur MP-20

MP-20 is Jabalpur. A challan raised against a Jabalpur vehicle in another MP city still shows on a lookup by registration number.

E Challan MP: frequently asked questions

Is there an official MP Police website to check challans?

Yes. It is echallan.mponline.gov.in, titled “e-Challan Payment : Madhya Pradesh Police”, run by MPOnline for MP Police. MP challans also appear on the national portal at echallan.parivahan.gov.in. Two addresses quoted on other sites, echallan.mppolice.gov.in and mptrafficpolice.gov.in, do not resolve at all, and transport.mp.gov.in handles RC, fitness, tax and permits rather than challans.

Can I check an MP e-challan by challan number?

Yes, on the government portals. Both the MPOnline and the Parivahan sites accept a challan number, a vehicle number or a driving licence number. The lookup on this page is by vehicle number only, which is deliberate: it is the one of the three you already know without having the challan in front of you.

Do I need to log in or create an account to check an MP challan?

No. Neither the state portal nor the national one asks you to register to look a challan up. You enter a number and a captcha. Nor does this page. If something asks you to create an account before it will show you a challan, that is worth a second look.

Are Madhya Pradesh traffic fines different from the rest of India?

Yes, and by more than people expect. The Motor Vehicles Act sets the statutory maximums, but each state notifies its own compounding amounts under section 200, which is what the offence actually settles at. Madhya Pradesh notified its list on 6 March 2023. A first helmet offence compounds at ₹300 in MP against the ₹1,000 central figure, and a seat belt at ₹500. The table above is MP’s own, not the national schedule.

What is the helmet fine in MP?

₹300 for a first offence under section 194D, per the Madhya Pradesh compounding notification of 6 March 2023. The central Motor Vehicles Act figure of ₹1,000 is the statutory maximum, not what MP charges, which is why the amount on your challan may be lower than you were expecting.

Can I check an e-challan for Indore, Gwalior or Jabalpur separately?

There is no separate lookup per city. Every MP challan sits in the same record whichever city raised it, so searching by vehicle number finds an Indore challan on a Gwalior-registered vehicle without you choosing a city at all. The registration series (MP-09 for Indore, MP-07 for Gwalior, MP-20 for Jabalpur) says where the vehicle was registered, not where it can be paid.

What does the MP RTO have to do with my challan?

Nothing, until you need paperwork. The RTO does not issue or collect challans; the traffic police do. But the RTO will not clear an ownership transfer, an NOC, an RC renewal or a fitness certificate while challans are pending against the vehicle, which in practice means an unpaid challan stops you selling the car.

Can I pay an MP challan in cash?

Yes, at an MPOnline kiosk. MPOnline is the state government’s own counter network, with kiosks in most MP towns. Take the registration number and ask for the printed receipt.

What happens to an MP challan I never pay?

It stays against the vehicle, and there is no expiry. After roughly two months it is referred to court, which in MP means a Virtual Court matter at vcourts.gov.in, with court fees on top and 45 to 60 days to clear instead of a few hours. It also blocks the RTO paperwork above.

My challan is marked “sent to court”. Can I pay it online here?

No, and neither can any other private website. Once a challan is referred it is the court’s to settle. For MP that is the Virtual Court at vcourts.gov.in, or a National Lok Adalat, which sits about quarterly and often compounds at a lower amount.

Checking from another state? Start at Check challan online, which works for every state in India.