Allahabad High Court denies permission for use of loudspeaker at mosque for azaan- The New Indian Express

By PTI

ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad Excessive Courtroom has dismissed a petition looking for permission for the usage of loudspeakers at a mosque for azaan.

The regulation has now been settled that the usage of loudspeaker in mosque is just not a basic proper, a bench of Justice Vivek Kumar Birla and Justice Vikas Budhwar noticed within the order on Wednesday.

The order got here on a petition filed by one Irfan of Badaun district.

Petitioner Irfan moved the excessive court docket after a subdivisional Justice of the Peace had in December final yr rejected his software looking for permission for taking part in loudspeaker/mike in a village mosque on the time of azaan.

The counsel for the petitioner submitted that the impugned order of the SDM was wholly unlawful and violates the basic and authorized rights of the petitioner to run loudspeaker from the mosque.

After listening to the arguments, the court docket mentioned, “The regulation has now been settled that use of loudspeaker from mosque is just not a basic proper. Even in any other case a cogent cause has been assigned within the impugned order. Accordingly, we discover that the current petition is patently misconceived, therefore the identical is dismissed.”