Kochi, Nov 21, 2025

In a stern warning over growing road safety violations, the Kerala High Court on Friday viewed multiple video clippings posted on YouTube showing buses and goods vehicles fitted with unauthorised LED strips, flashing name boards, and flickering DJ-style lights.

The Division Bench of Justice Anil K. Narendran and Justice Muralee Krishna S. expressed serious concern over the dangers such unauthorised modifications pose to passengers and other road users.

The court emphasised that these vehicles openly flouted the Central Government’s AIS-008 and AIS-052 safety norms that regulate vehicle lighting and bus body design.

It also highlighted that filming inside drivers’ cabins during vehicle movement violates the Motor Vehicles Driving Regulations, 2017.

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