Loud nightclubs: Owner, general manager of Kakuna plead guilty to noise pollution, slapped with fines

A three-member team — comprising a policeman, a revenue officer, and a member of Chandigarh Pollution Control Board — had raided the nightclub on August 12 after locals of the area, accompanied by the area councillor Mahesh Inder Singh Sidhu, had complained to UT Adviser, Dharam Pal, about loud noise emanating from a bunch of nightclubs in the area till late at night which led to disturbance and nuisance. Following the complaint, legal proceedings under Section 133 of CrPC were initiated against three nightclubs — The Vault, Grapho-07 and Kakuna nightclub — in Sector 7 on August 10.

Sources said, “As per one of the orders of SDM (east) Nitish Singla, a committee will check the level of noise with decibel metres as per the laid down protocols, without any prior intimation to the respondents (nightclubs) at different times of a day/night, and submit a report before August 25.”

As per details available, earlier too the general manager of Kakuna nightclub, Rohit Kumar, and one of its DJ, Ayush Dattana, had been held guilty for creating noise pollution under Section 61 of the Punjab Police (PP) Act, 2017, in April this year.