PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad traffic police have launched a drive against motorcyclists modifying silencers of their vehicles to make deafening sounds, triggering noise pollution.
The offenders would have to pay a penalty of Rs1,000 and change the modified silencer, police said. “Modification without prior permission is an offence as per the Motor Vehicles Act,” assistant commissioner of police (traffic) Shrikant Disale told TOI.
Disale said the police had also warned the garage owners against making modifications in silencers of two-wheelers, especially of the Royal Enfield motorcycles.He said the police collected a fine of Rs2.3 lakh from owners of 211 bullets with modified silencers in the last eight days. Disale said the police have also warned the number plate makers against making fancy number plates, adding that 77 violators had been fined of Rs55,000 collectively in the past eight days.