More proof of hypocrisy at High levels in the Bharatiya establishment. "Don't mix religion into this issue", except when it comes to exempting Hindu festivals. Muslims and Christians can go to the dogs!
[Under 58 years of pagan rule, Christians already have gone to the dogs!]
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Times News Network. Times of India, Bombay, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005. Page 15.
New Delhi: Festivals like Navratri and Ganesh Chaturthi will be fun once again. Toning down its own order imposing a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. ban on the use of loudspeakers in public places, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the constitutional validity of a provision of the Noise Pollution (Control & Regulation) Rules to allow state governments to permit the use of sound amplifiers for two hours till midnight for 15 days in a year.
However, this doesn’t mean a free run for Diwali revelers as the relaxation will not be applicable to the court’s July 18 order banning the use of sound-emitting fire crackers after 10 p.m.
The order followed a spate of applications by many parites, including the governments of Maharashtra and Gujarat, seeking relaxation of the absolute ban during Ganesh Chaturthi and Navratri respectively.
While Maharashtra did not get the relief and went through the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations quietly, Gujarat witnessed a full-scale Garba during Navratri as it got the assent of the Supreme Court to relax the use of loudspeakers till midnight by citing rules allowing states to relax the ban for a limited period.
Upholding the validity of the provisions of the Statutory Rules giving such power to the States, a bench comprising Chief Justice R.C. Lahoti and Justice Ashok Bhan said that States must strictly adhere to the two-hour relaxation period and that too, only for a maximum of 15 days in a year.
In addition, the relaxation period has to be notified by the States concerned in advance. “Any attempt to enlarge the period and hour of relaxation for use of loudspeakers may run counter to the Supreme Court’s rulings,” the bench warned.
It had said that loudspeakers and high-volume amplifiers could be used only in case of public emergencies. The court had invoked Article 21 of the Constitution guaranteeing Right to Life and said that the right to life included the right to live peacefully.
When applications wer filed seeking relaxation of the ban on the use of loudspeakers in the morning hours, as it clashed with the Muslim Azaan (morning call to prayer), a visibly upset Chief Justice had asked the applicants not to mix religion into such issues. END
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