Pathan said he was told by the police that the SC directive was being implemented all over the city. But the police came back and told us that we didn't have to stop the use of loudspeakers altogether but only reduce the volume, which we have done." Maulana Khalil Pathan, Imam and trustee of Dargah Masjid in Mahim, where there are around 15 mosques, told this paper, "We had completely stopped the use of loudspeakers a week ago for the early morning azaan. "That is why the police may have asked the local mosques to reduce the volume levels." While some mosques have received instructions from the Mumbai Police to either refrain from using the loudspeaker or reduce the volume, others have got no such intimation, and therefore no change has taken place in the volume levels.Īccording to Saeed Noori of the Raza Academy, such instructions have been given in places where different communities live together and where the police may have received complaints of disturbance.
Some of the 250-300 mosques across Mumbai have decided to lower the volume of loudspeakers for the early morning azaan for Fajr prayers in order to abide by the Supreme Court (SC) order which bans its use between 10:00pm and 6:00am across the country.
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