HC Seeks State's Response on Police Inaction

Youngsters in their early twenties riding two-wheelers with two pillion riders and also some of them performing wheelies with no action taken by the city police are causing a nuisance in the city, while also resulting in accidents and deaths, said the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday, directing the authorities to submit their response on the issue.

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A division bench of Chief Justice NV Anjaria and Justice MI Arun passed the order during the hearing of a public interest litigation filed by Dr Archana Bhat K, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology, Kateel Ashok Pai Memorial College in Shivamogga over implementing the law concerning wearing of safety harnesses and crash helmets by children starting from the age of nine months to four years who ride the pillion on two-wheelers.