The Hyderabad police authorities during a crackdown on illegal silencers managed to seize 1,000 of them. Recently a video along with pictures have been shared online of all these seized silencers. Following their seizure, the police ordered a road roller to crush all of the 1,000 silencers to set an example. Just a few days ago Pune police also did something similar.
Hyderabad police crushes 1000 silencers
Hyderabad cops destructed about 1000 modified silencers of bikes.
As per the amendment of Section 190(2) of the Motor vehicle Act, fitting pressure horn and modified silencers on your bike causing Air and noise pollution is punishable with fine upto Rs. 10000/- and imprisonment… pic.twitter.com/XnC4rsS7xI
— Naveena (@TheNaveena) April 1, 2024
The visuals from the crushing of these silencers have come courtesy of Naveena from X (formerly Twitter). The video has been shared with the caption stating, “Hyderabad cops destructed about 1000 modified silencers of bikes.”
The post added, “As per the amendment of Section 190(2) of the Motor vehicle Act, fitting pressure horn and modified silencers on your bike causing Air and noise pollution is punishable with fine upto Rs. 10000/- and imprisonment upto six months.”
As per the post, this penalty will apply only if the pressure horn or modified silencer produces more than 80 decibels of noise.
Why is this crackdown taking place?
As mentioned above this crackdown on modified silencers is taking place across the country. Now you may be wondering why are modified silencers being scrutinized. The answer to this is the increasing level of noise pollution.
Often these modified silencer bike riders create chaos on public roads. They rev their bikes on roads which distrubs citizens. Additionally, the also emit more harmful gasses because of the removal of catalytic converters.
Netizens reactions
A numeber of people in the comments of the post appreciated this action by Hyderabad police. However, a few people criticized the actions of the police authorities. They said that if these aftermarket silencers are “illegal”. Then why are shops and websites like Amazon allowed to sell them freely.
Now it may seem like a reasonable point. However, the reason behind this is that the shops and websites like Amazon sell them as “off-road” use only. This brings these silencers into a gray area. A while ago Royal Enfield also used to sell these silencers as “off-road” use only parts.
Pune Police also crushed 571 silencers
Back in February, it was reported that the Pune police authorities, in a similar crackdown, crushed 571 illegal silencers. The authorities even went a step above to ensure these silencers are caught.
For this they issued a new WhatsApp number. This special WhatsApp number can be used by people to directly report their complaints for modified silencers.
It was also reported that in just a span of 12 days of this initiative. The Pune police managed to issue fines to 2,183 motorcycle riders with modified silencers. This drive was initiated by Pune police on February 7 in order to curb down the noise pollution created by these riders.
In addition to Pune, Hyderabad police have already crushed 1,000 more silencers before this recent crackdown. It was also reported that the law enforcement agencies in Margao also seized around 40 motorcycles for the same reason. At the time it registered 45 cases related to illegal modifications. It seems like more cities are joining this list of crackdowns.
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