21 Bullet motorcycles impounded, 80 challaned for violation of norms
PK Jaiswar
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, June 24
If you are a Royal Enfield ‘Bullet’ enthusiast, never dare to go beyond the manufacturers specifications. The Amritsar police are now on the lookout for those Bullet riders, who modify its silencer to produce jarring high decibel sound, thereby causing massive noise pollution.
Dhruman Nimbale, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP), traffic, said, “In the past 48-hours, the traffic police have impounded 21 Bullet motorcycles while 80 others have been challaned for the offence.”
Interestingly, the traffic police are taking help of its young policemen, who are also bullet enthusiast, for catching the offenders. Earlier, the Police Department used to face difficulty in detecting the violation in the motorcycle. In the absence of any technical input, the traffic policemen could not find the mechanism that used to generate high decibel silencer blast.
The ADCP said, “Our new recruits have some knowledge of the altered silencers in the Bullet motorcycle and it has helped us a lot. We will continue this drive in the future also.” Silencer blasts produced by altering silencer of the Bullet motorcycle has become a nuisance in the city. The popularity of Bullet motorcycle has seen a considerable rise among the youth in recently. The youth get the silencer altered and modified to create such sounds.
As per the Central Motor Vehicle Rules and Motor Vehicle Act, a silencer blast is an offence. According to the police, the youth create the silencer blast by switching the engine off and on when the motorcycle is at high speed. This way a firecracker like sound or firing bullet is generated by the engine.
Meanwhile, the traffic wing today launched crackdown on the offenders using press, police and VIP stickers on their vehicles. It issued challans to around 11 violators, during a special naka at various points, including Bhandari Bridge. A majority of offenders were let off after issuing warning and taking a written undertaking from them that they would not use such stickers again.
“The main aim is to rein in the prevalent VIP culture among the people, who take law into their hands by pasting stickers without taking mandatory permission from the authorities concerned,” said Nimbale.
