Chandigarh, March 5 -- Cracking the whip against traffic violators who default on challan payments too, the Registration and Licensing Authority (RLA) has decided that drivers with five or more unpaid challans in Chandigarh will be barred from obtaining vehicle insurance and pollution certificates.

The transport department has placed such drivers on the non-transaction list, meaning that they will be unable to carry out transactions such as ownership transfer, renewal of registration certificates (RC) or pollution certificates etc. It is mandatory to get renew pollution certificate every six months.

Only road tax payments will be allowed.

These restrictions will only be lifted once the pending fines are paid.

This is in line with cent...