“Religious Places are for offering Prayers, Loudspeaker use not a right as it often causes nuisance to Residents: Allahabad HC”, Live Law, January 23, 2025:
“The Allahabad High Court recently observed that religious places are primarily for offering prayers to the divinity, and thus, the use of loudspeakers cannot be claimed as a matter of right, especially when such use often creates a nuisance for the residents.
A bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Donadi Ramesh observed this while dismissing a writ plea moved by one Mukhtiyar Ahmad seeking a direction from the state authorities to permit the installation of loudspeakers on a Masjid.
At the outset, the counsel for the state objected to the maintainability of the writ petition on the grounds that the petitioner is neither mutwalli nor the Masjid belongs to him……”
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