DMP destroys 10,000 hydraulic horns

Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday destroyed around 10,000 hydraulic horns on Minto Road in the capital.

In a bid to curb noise pollution in the city, traffic police seized the illegal horns in the last one year mainly from buses and trucks. 

Briefing reporters at DMP media centre, DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia urged people to stop using hydraulic horns as its use leaves a detrimental effect on patients and children. 

Using such horns is illegal and a punishable offence but the punishment is very meagre -- only Tk 200 as fine for the offence, the commissioner said. He urged the authorities concerned to increase this punishment.

He also requested the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority not to renew fitness certificates of the vehicles still using hydraulic horns.

The commissioner also said they would write to the authorities concerned to impose a ban on import, sale and marketing of such horns.

Replying to a query that influential people such as ministers, police personnel, VIPs and even journalists still sometimes take wrong lane, Asaduzzaman said, “Whoever they are, if anyone uses the wrong side they will be punished as per the law.”