Supreme Court orders curbs on digital vehicle services for unpaid e-challans

In an order dated 2026-09-28 in S Rajaseekaran versus Union of India, the Supreme Court directed states/UTs to tighten recovery of unpaid e-challans by barring key digital vehicular services for defaulters. The order includes blocking RC-related services (renewal/duplicate/updates), denying fitness certificates, blacklisting on the Parivahan portal to prevent ownership transfers, and allowing driving licence suspension/non-renewal for repeated violations; it also said PUC centres should not issue PUC certificates to defaulters and vehicles may be impounded during random checks if challans remain unpaid.