Pune: The Pune city police recorded decibel levels of 1,224 Ganapati mandals that used loudspeakers during the immersion procession across the city over Friday and Saturday. Based on these readings, the police will soon initiate legal action against the mandals.
We will soon take legal action against them,” a senior police officer said. Accordingly, show-cause notices will be issued to the mandals and after receiving their response, police will file cases. The police had implemented the ‘four bass, four top’ speaker system for the mandals and had banned the use of plasma speakers and pressure mids speakers. However, at several places during the actual procession, the sound levels exceeded the prescribed limits. Besides the loudspeakers, the police have also recorded decibel-level readings of the dhol-tasha troupes. Police to take action against mandal members who performed vulgar dance Many mandal members performed vulgar dance steps while standing on the tractors or tractor trolleys at Alka Talkies Chowk, targeting and taunting police personnel implementing the noise levels. Police have taken videos of these mandal members. “They deliberately targeted police personnel on the bandobust duty at Alka Talkies Chowk by doing vulgar dance steps.
Police commissioner Amitesh Kumar on Monday said he has instructed the deputy commissioners of police to initiate legal action against the mandals that had breached the sound decibel limits.