Pune city in is in the news for opposing helmet compulsion .the law came into effect on the 1st January 2019 and Since then, a majority of Pune’s people have been protesting against the new law
Pune’s newly formed group ‘Helmet Sakti Virodhi Kruti Samiti’ conducted an funeral ceremony of a helmet to protest against the new rule. the head of the newly formed committee then said that the helmets can be made mandatory for the highways but they are not needed inside the city limit where the maximum speed attained by the two-wheelers is 20-30 km/h.
The other reasons quoted for not wearing a helmet were that
helmet is causing spine problems and hair loss .
The Pune city police had come up with this rule after the streets of Pune saw as many as 184 death due to the two-wheeler related accidents.
