Haliyal : What was meant to be a road safety awareness drive by the Uttara Kannada police has ended up highlighting the very lapse it sought to prevent.

As part of Superintendent of Police Deepan M.N.’s ‘Helmet Awareness Campaign’, police officials across the district have been holding bike rallies, campus visits, and outreach events to promote helmet use among two-wheeler riders. But a recent rally in Haliyal, under the Dandeli sub-division, has now become a talking point not for its message, but for its irony.

On October 8, SP Deepan M.N. led a bike rally himself, riding a motorcycle and flagging off the event to spread awareness on the importance of helmets. However, in a scene that perfectly captured the “do as I say, not as I do” spirit, several police officials following the SP we

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