Traffic police out to silence noisy vehicles in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Traffic Police on Sunday conducted a drive against vehicles causing noise pollution by using modified silencers, air horns, and multi tone horns in the city.

The traffic police said that they had started taking strict action against persons indulging in noise pollution by booking cases under MV Act.

They said that mostly, heavy vehicles like school, college buses, RTC buses, lorries, tankers, trucks, etcetera were to be using the prohibited horns that cause noise pollution and further creating a kind of sudden fear among other road users.

They advised all school and college managements, RTC authorities, owners of such vehicles to immediately replace such noise emitting prohibited horns with legally admissible horns.

Further police urged public to take a video of such vehicles emitting more sound or using multi tone horn and an air horn and report to them through their WhatsApp number 9490617346.