Brahmachari Dayanand Indian Inhabitant and Another v. Union of India and 4 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
PIL dismissed; noise pollution complaint re loudspeakers/public address systems/LCDs at Maha Kumbh, Prayagraj (Sector 18, Mukti Marg); petitioners residents of Uttarakhand; no material produced showing noise beyond permissible limits under relevant Act and Rules; petition termed laconic and an academic exercise based on Supreme Court judgments and photographs of loudspeakers; no direction issued; no costs or quantum involved.
What did the court decide?
Apart from a few pictures of loudspeakers placed for announcements and situated on temporary roads created for the Kumbh Mela, the petitioners produced no material worth the name indicating the nature of noise created by the public address systems or that the same were beyond the permissible limit in terms of the relevant Act and the Rules. ¶8