KARACHI: A judicial magistrate directed the police to take strict action against shopkeepers selling honking toy horns and those who used them, causing noise pollution for the general public, in Malir.

Judicial Magistrate (Malir) Anwer Ali Shah issued these directives to the SHOs of the Sachal and Sharafi Goth police stations falling under the administrative jurisdiction of his court.

The magistrate had taken a suo motu action over the noise pollution and nuisance facing the general public due to the usage of such Bajas or toy horns by the youths and children out on the roads and residential areas in the guise of celebrations, the lawyers and judicial staffers told Dawn.

The judge observed that whereas, “it has been brought in the knowledge of the undersigned that in the name of celebrations of the Independence Day during the month of August, the ‘Honking Toy Horns’ are being frequently used and sold within the territorial jurisdictions of this Court due to which ailing persons and general public are facing threat nuisance.”

Therefore, the magistrate took cognisance under the Section 190 (C ) of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1989 against such offence(s).

Thus, the magistrate directed the SHOs of PS Sachal and PS Sharafi Goth to “take stern action under penal provisions against such accused persons who are using such honking toy horns in the name of celebration of independence day, which is causing public nuisance”.

Published in Dawn, August 10th, 2023