Mumbai: The Maharashtra police informed the Bombay high court that it had received around 2450 noise pollution complaints since January of which they attended all but found 2006 without substance.

They also registered 186 cases. The police also informed the HC of the twitter complaint facility through which they attended around 300 complaints. A division bench of Justices A.S. Oka and A.K. Menon was hearing a clutch of public interest litigations (PIL) on noise pollution filed by various activists and groups on police inaction.

The state while enumerating the measures it had adopted informed the HC that it had introduced a quick response method wherein it acted upon complaints received through social networking site Twitter.

The counsel for the police read out some of the tweets and the appreciation it received from the complainants for acting promptly and making errant people shut down the high decibel loudspeakers. When the HC asked about the logic behind the high number of invalid cases, the counsel told the court that the on seeing the cops, the perpetrators shut down the volume of speakers.