Punjab Government has issued instructions to immediately remove multi-toned horns, other than those allowed to use such horns under law, from the vehicles.
Directions have been issued to all the Commissioners of Police and the district police chiefs to initiate action against erring persons in the form of strict penalties, including heavy fines, impounding of vehicle and cancellation of driving licence.
The directions came in compliance of the Supreme Court’s orders directing “all the owner or 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, that is by January 10, 2014”, stated Additional DGP law and Order and Traffic Dinkar Gupta.
Gupta 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”. Only police vehicles, fire brigades and ambulances were permitted under law to use multi-toned horns etc and that also in the course of their duties, he added.