A road roller could soon become the final stop for Lucknow’s illegal motorcycle silencers, with traffic police considering crushing modified silencers confiscated in the past 10 days.
For years, the loud, often explosive sound of modified motorcycle silencers has been a familiar nuisance on city roads. Eight vehicles were also seized, making it the biggest single-day haul during the period. Fifty-one modified silencers were deposited at the police lines. Fifty-five modified silencers were deposited at the police lines. In Nagpur, traffic police have recently taken the crackdown a step further. Pune has adopted a similar approach.
The latest enforcement drive, conducted between September 2 and September 11, saw traffic police remove 510 such silencers, which were deposited at the police lines. The crackdown was particularly intensive on September 5, when traffic police checked 865 vehicles, issued 140 challans and removed 100 modified silencers. On September 10, police checked 471 vehicles, issued 63 challans and seized one vehicle. On September 7, police checked 425 vehicles, issued 61 challans and seized two vehicles. On September 6, 392 vehicles were checked, 55 challans issued and one vehicle seized, while 45 modified silencers were deposited at the police lines. On September 5, officials destroyed 372 modified and unauthorised silencers by running a road roller over them. The city had detected 342 cases involving modified or unauthorised silencers this year till September 5. In one recent operation in Kharadi, police seized 45 motorcycles fitted with illegally modified silencers and subsequently crushed them using a road roller. Across Pune, traffic police said they had seized 650 motorcycles with modified silencers in five days.
Police said the move was aimed at ensuring the seized exhausts could not be reused.
