The Supreme Court judgments which govern the use of loudspeakers were intended to protect citizens from becoming \u201cforced audience\u201d to noise.<\/span><\/p>\n Re\u200b\u200bgulating the use of loudspeakers and timings was based on the legal principle that freedom from noise pollution is a part of the Right to Life under Article 21 of the Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n Nobody from any religion can claim a right to create noise even on his own premises which would travel beyond his precincts and cause a nuisance to neighbours or others.<\/span><\/p>\n On the use of loudspeakers in religious practices, the Supreme Court reproduced parts of a newspaper column which said the objective of any religion was not to force anyone to listen to its expressions of faith.<\/span><\/p>\n Hence, the logic that loudspeakers are not a must to spread religious devotion appealed to it.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cSC is loud and clear on noise pollution<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>The Hindu <\/b>on 5th May 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Supreme Court judgments which govern the use of loudspeakers were intended to protect citizens from becoming \u201cforced audience\u201d to noise. What are the key observations from Supreme Court\u2019s judgments on loudspeakers? Freedom from Noise Pollution under Article 21 Re\u200b\u200bgulating the use of loudspeakers and timings was based on the legal… Continue reading SC is loud and clear on noise pollution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-182883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are the key observations from Supreme Court\u2019s judgments on loudspeakers?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Freedom from Noise Pollution under Article 21<\/b><\/h5>\n
Disturbance to Neighbours<\/b><\/h5>\n
Loudspeakers in Religious Practices<\/b><\/h6>\n