Hyderabad, Jan. 20 -- The Telangana High Court on Tuesday, January 20, said the police cannot stop citizens on the road and force them to pay traffic fines, days after Chief Minister Revanth Reddy suggested that traffic fines be automatically debited from the bank accounts of the violators.

Hearing two writ petitions filed by V Raghavendra Chary, a resident of Secunderabad, challenging the methods used by Hyderabad Traffic Police to enforce rules, the single judge bench of Justice NV Shravan Kumar said that the police should not stop motorists or resort to strong-arm tactics, like taking away vehicle keys, to make people pay pending traffic fines on the spot.

The High Court noted that citizens can pay the fines as per their choice, and ...