Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (HB)

Udupi, Feb 3: Manipal police on Wednesday brought in a road-roller and crushed 50 silencers for causing noise pollution. The act was carried out in the presence of superintendent of police Vishnuvardhan and additional superintendent of police Kumarchandra. 

SP N  Vishnuvardhan speaking to media persons said, "Udupi district police department has been observing a month-long road safety awareness drive with the motto 'Sadak Suraksha-Jeevan Raksha'. Prominently aimed to save lives by preventing the violation of traffic rules. We have been receiving multiple complaints by residents in the Manipal area against motorcyclists who have installed modified silencers on their two-wheelers. A month-long special drive was conducted from January 1 to 31 in this regard."

"As many as 51 cases were booked for the violation of road norms. The police removed more than 50 modified silencers and penalized the owners of the two-wheelers. Motorcycles and scooters are only permitted to produce a sound not higher than 80 decibels. More than Rs 25,000 in fines were also collected from violators. Such kind of altered silencers is a nuisance to senior citizens, pregnant women, sick people and kids, especially during the night. There are also hospitals situated near NH 169A, so on receiving complaints from the public, the department took necessary action. Rather than dumping the silencers, we got them crushed so that they will not be reused by people at garages. We will continue to carry out such drives to curb violations of road norms," he added.

Sadanand Nayak, DySP Udupi, Manjunath M, Manipal PI, Rajshekhar Vandali, Sudhakar Thonse, PSIs Niranjan Gowda, Devraj Biradara and others were present.