Traffic policemen imposing fines on errant drivers in Hyderabad. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal In a first for Hyderabad, traffic police started knocking on the doors of violators with huge stacks of unpaid challans. The Cyberabad police, who started this initiative in May this year, said that they took this initiative to do away with challans pending for years, and to curb repeat offenders. The push also follows a string of serious incidents involving vehicles with unpaid challans this year. Even in the recent Chevella tragedy in which 19 people died, the lorry carried multiple unpaid challans as did the bus involved in Kurnool fire mishap, for violations such as entering no-entry zones, signal jumping and stop-line crossing. The numbers uncovered the sheer scale of the problem. It was found that 24 vehicles had piled up more than 100 challans each, with one of the offenders reaching 162. Police also identified 12,425 vehicles with exactly 10 challans and 42,777 with between 11 and 20. Another 7,325 had accumulated between 21 and 30 challans, while 2,081 …