Punjab bans multi-toned horns on vehicles Chandigarh: The Punjab government has asked the owner/users of vehicles fitted with multi-toned horns, other than those allowed to use such horns under law to immediately remove and directed all the Commissioners of Police and SSPs to initiate action against the erring persons in the form of strict penalties, including: heavy fines, impounding of vehicle and cancellation of driving licence. Disclosing this here today, Mr. Dinkar Gupta, Additional DGP Law & Order and Traffic said that these directions have been given 10.12.2013, in Special Leave Petition 25237 of 2010 – Abhay Singh versus State of Uttar Pradesh and others, where directions have been issued to all “the owner/users of vehicles fitted with multi-toned horns, other than those allowed to use such horns under Rules 119 (3) of the 1989 Rules or corresponding rules framed by the State Governments and the Administration of the Union Territories, shall remove multi-toned horns within one month i.e. by January 10, 2014”. He further said that the Central Motor Vehicles Act and the Rules framed there under by the Central government have laid down that “no motor vehicle, including agricultural tractor, shall be fitted with any multi-toned horn giving a succession of different notes or with any other sound producing device an unduly harsh, shrill, loud or alarming noise”. ambulances were permitted under law to use multi-toned horns etc and that also in the course of their duties.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 04:53:55 +0000
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