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Automobile
Road Safety Panel Urges Crackdown on Modified Silencers and Highway Encroachments
✍️ The Times of India
🗓 07 Aug 2026, 02:04 PM
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India’s road safety panel has called for stringent action against vehicles fitted with modified silencers and illegal encroachments on highways.
The National Road Safety Council has urged authorities to intensify enforcement against vehicles equipped with tampered silencers, citing safety risks and noise pollution. The panel also highlighted the growing problem of illegal encroachments on national highways, which compromise traffic flow and increase accident likelihood. Officials are expected to roll out stricter inspection protocols and impose heavier penalties to curb these violations.