Allahabad High Court denies permission to be used of loudspeaker at mosque for azaan

By PTI

ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a petition searching for permission for using loudspeakers at a mosque for azaan.

The regulation has now been settled that using loudspeaker in mosque just isn’t 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 courtroom after a subdivisional Justice of the Peace had in December final 12 months rejected his software searching 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 courtroom stated, “The law has now been settled that use of loudspeaker from mosque is not a fundamental right. Even otherwise a cogent reason has been assigned in the impugned order. Accordingly, we find that the present petition is patently misconceived, hence the same is dismissed.”