India, Aug. 10 -- Delhi lived through another sleepless night on Sunday as kanwariyas traversed the city in droves, with trucks loaded with boomboxes blaring music at levels well beyond legal limits, while residents braced for severe traffic misery on Monday and Tuesday as pilgrim numbers swell alongside the weekday rush.

HT's sound meters logged peaks of 110 decibels again around a clutch of Kanwar Yatra trucks, double the 55db limit for residential areas during the day and 45db at night. To be sure, the use of loudspeakers at any volume is disallowed between 10pm and 6am.

Delhi Police did little to keep the blare in check, despite residents from several neighbourhoods on the Yatra route airing their concerns, especially the health eff...