India, July 24 -- When you decide to sell your car, you probably think about the service history, the tyres, maybe a touch-up on the paint. Very few sellers think about pending traffic challans. That is an expensive oversight.

Challans attached to your vehicle's registration number are visible to anyone who looks, and in today's market, serious buyers and resale platforms always look. What they find affects what they are willing to pay, and sometimes whether they are willing to buy at all.

How Challans Show Up During a Resale Check

When a buyer or a used car platform evaluates a vehicle, one of the first things they do is run the registration number through a challan check. This pulls up every pending fine linked to that number across ...