Andhra police crush illegally amplified bike silencers

Rajamahendravaram (Andhra Pradesh), March 11 : Aimed at teaching a lesson to all the youngsters trying to impress college girls with amplified silencers fixed on their motorcycles, the traffic police in Rajamahendravaram in East Godavari district have started dismantling and crushing them under a road roller.
“We caught up to 50 loud motorcycles, dismantled their silencers and crushed them under a road roller,” the DSP (Traffic) of Rajamahendravaram, K.V.N. Varaprasad, told IANS on Thursday.
Varaprasad said that young boys were zipping on their loud motorbikes, especially in the presence of students from the women’s colleges, leading to sound pollution.
The DSP said that he himself is a direct sufferer of this loud silencer menace as he experiences it first hand as he stays near the Arts College and the SKVK College in the city.
“I have know how much people are suffering from this problem. That’s why we have initiated this silencer drive to remove the loud components from the motorcycles,” the senior police officer said.
Incidentally, the DGP’s office has supplied a digital noise level measuring instrument to the traffic police to thwart the sound polluters and identify the high decibel vehicles.