Character Certificate (Charitra Praman Patra) in Rajasthan

What is a charitra praman patra in Rajasthan?

A character certificate in Rajasthan: charitra praman patra, is Rajasthan Police's written statement that its records show nothing adverse against a named person at the address that person declared. Rajasthan Police delivers the service through the citizen services on its official website, police.rajasthan.gov.in, and the same site hosts a "Print Your Character Certificate" page, so an issued certificate can be retrieved and printed without another visit to a police station.

The certificate is a police document, not a revenue one. Rajasthan's e-Mitra and SSO Rajasthan channels carry hundreds of state services, including income, caste, domicile and Jan Aadhaar-linked services delivered by the revenue and other departments, but a character certificate can only come from the police, because only the police hold the criminal records the certificate speaks to. Readers regularly lose a week applying at a tehsil counter for this reason.

Employers running background checks, passport and visa processes, arms licence applications, private security agency registrations, contractor and tender empanelment, and several Rajasthan recruitment boards ask for this certificate.

Who can and who cannot apply?

You can apply for a Rajasthan character certificate if you reside in Rajasthan and can identify the district and police station covering your residential address. There is no income limit, no caste criterion and no age bar, this is a records check, not a welfare benefit, so none of the eligibility tests that govern Rajasthan's income, caste or EWS certificates apply here.

You cannot apply to Rajasthan Police for an address outside Rajasthan. A previous address in another state has to be verified by that state's police, and Rajasthan Police reports only on the period and area within its own jurisdiction. You are also not eligible for a clean certificate while an FIR or criminal case is pending against you. The certificate reports what the register shows rather than suppressing it.

Applicants who have lived at more than one Rajasthan address are eligible, but should expect a longer enquiry, because more than one police station then has to report. Applicants who need the document for foreign immigration should first confirm whether the consulate wants a Regional Passport Office PCC instead. The two are different documents from different authorities.

What documents are required?

Rajasthan's police citizen-service flow is built around identity, address and contactability:

• Proof of identity, a government photo ID in the applicant's name.
• Proof of the Rajasthan address to be verified, ration card, electricity bill, rent agreement or property tax receipt.
• A passport-size photograph in the size and format the upload screen states.
• A working mobile number and email, the citizen registration is created against them and they carry the OTP and later updates.
• The acknowledgement generated on submission, carrying the application or reference number you will need for the "Print Your Character Certificate" page.

Keep the originals of the identity and address documents at home as well as uploading them. The officer who comes from the local police station asks to see something physical that ties you to that address, and producing it on the first visit is the single thing that shortens the enquiry most.

How to apply for a character certificate in Rajasthan online

1. Open police.rajasthan.gov.in and register as a citizen user. New users register with a mobile number and email address and verify with the OTP sent to that number. Use a number you actually hold, because it carries every later update. Reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than through a search advertisement — several private "apply online" sites imitate it.
2. Log in and select the character certificate service from the citizen services list.
3. Fill the application. Enter your name exactly as it appears on your identity document, father's name, date of birth, the complete Rajasthan residential address with district, tehsil or ward and the police station covering it, and the purpose: employment, passport, visa, licence or tender. List every Rajasthan address you have lived at, not only the current one.
4. Upload the documents and pay whatever fee the payment screen displays. That displayed amount is the entire government charge. Save the receipt.
5. Submit and save the application number from the acknowledgement. It is what you quote in every follow-up and what the print page asks for later.
6. Stay available for police verification. The file goes to the police station covering the address you entered, and an officer verifies you there. Be present at the address and reachable on the registered mobile through this stage.
7. Retrieve the certificate from the "Print Your Character Certificate" page on police.rajasthan.gov.in once it has been issued.

How to apply through an e-Mitra kiosk

1. Visit an e-Mitra kiosk with your identity document, address proof and photograph.
2. Ask the operator to file the Rajasthan Police character certificate application in your name. This is the same electronic queue, not a separate paper channel.
3. Pay the government fee the screen displays plus the kiosk's notified service charge, and collect the printed acknowledgement carrying the application number.
4. Stay available for the police verification visit, and print the certificate from police.rajasthan.gov.in once it is issued.

How do you check the application status?

Log in to police.rajasthan.gov.in with the credentials used to file and open the application by its number. Because the substantive steps are police-side; allocation to a station, the officer's visit, the station's report, an application that appears static for several days is normally sitting with the police station rather than stuck in the software.

Once the certificate is issued, the "Print Your Character Certificate" page on the same site is the correct way to obtain a copy. Applicants who lose the printed certificate do not need to reapply; they need the application details the print page asks for.

Why do character certificate applications get delayed in Rajasthan?

• The applicant was not found at the declared address when the verifying officer visited, and no neighbour could confirm residence.
• The address entered falls under a different police station than the one selected, so the file waits to be reallocated.
• Name, father's name or date of birth on the form does not match the uploaded identity document.
• A previous Rajasthan address was left off the form and surfaced during enquiry.
• Uploaded scans are unreadable, cropped or in the wrong file format.
• A pending FIR or criminal case exists, which the certificate then has to record.

How long is a Rajasthan character certificate valid?

A character certificate states what police records showed on the date of issue, so it carries no open-ended validity. Employers, licensing authorities and consulates set their own acceptance window in practice: commonly six months from the date of issue, and ask for a fresh certificate after that. There is no renewal procedure in Rajasthan: you file a fresh application when you need a current certificate, and the earlier one simply lapses in usefulness.

What does it cost, and what about agents?

Rajasthan charges the fee its own payment screen displays, and an e-Mitra kiosk may add its notified service charge if you file through one. Those two amounts are the entire legitimate cost of a Rajasthan character certificate. Nobody at a police station is entitled to a rupee beyond them.

Be sceptical of fee figures quoted on private "apply online" websites; several of them publish amounts that no government page confirms, and some collect a payment without filing anything. Pay on the government screen, and keep the receipt it generates, it is your proof of what the state actually charged.

Agents who promise a Rajasthan character certificate "in two days" for a few thousand rupees are selling a queue position that does not exist, because the file still reaches the same police station and the same verifying officer. A demand for money on the side belongs in a written complaint to the Superintendent of Police for the district, whose office is also the right escalation when verification has not started at all.