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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (MD)

Mangalore, Jul 16: Cracking down on vehicles, especially buses that use high decibel horns indiscriminately, the city traffic police on Wednesday July 17 intercepted over 40 buses near Lalbagh and fined more than 26 of them.

The cops stopped the buses, both private and KSRTC, and inspected them on the spot. Horns of several buses were removed and placed under the bus tyres so that they would not be used again.

Each bus found to be using horns with frequency above 75 decibels were fined Rs 100.

The police inspected the frequency of the horn sounds using a sound level meter.

Speaking to daijiworld, ACP (traffic) Uday Nayak said that the sound level meter has a capacity to catch frquencies up to 10 metres, and that it was obtained from the Pollution Control Board. The device was imported at a cost of Rs one lac, he said.

Apart from buses, one auto rickshaw was also caught using the horn indiscriminately. A two-wheeler rider was fined for riding on the wrong side.

Traffic policemen H Shivaprasad, H Babu and Pradeep H S were part of the operation. After Lalbagh, the team continued the exercise in other parts of the city including Nantoor.