Lucknow. On the orders of the Supreme Court, the Uttar Pradesh government is running a campaign against loudspeakers across the state. In view of this, loudspeakers were brought down in all the cities of Uttar Pradesh and there were some loudspeakers which were left after reducing the sound according to the standard. But on Friday morning, the speaker of Noor Masjid was taken down by the police in the VVIP area of Lucknow’s Gautampalli due to the problem of the sound of azaan. At the same time, at some distance the sound of the second big mosque was reduced. Both these mosques are in 500 meters in VVIP area. The Chief Minister’s residence is also located in this area. In view of this, the police is even more alert.
Talking to the media about this, Imam Mohammad Ajmal of Noor Masjid built in Gautampally, this VVIP area of Lucknow, said that for the last two-three days, sometimes three, sometimes four policemen were coming. He was asking to slow down the sound of the loudspeaker in the mosque every time. Imam told that first the voice was slowed down. After this the policemen reached again on Thursday.
On the other hand, if sources are to be believed, the complaint was made directly to the Lucknow Police Commissioner about the problem of loudspeaker sound from this VVIP area of Gautampally. After this the officers were asked to trace the voice and check its voice. The matter, as it was directly related to the Commissioner’s Office. Therefore, all the police officers associated with the area started locating the sound. In this connection, the police team reached there from Gautampalli area on Friday morning after hearing the sound of loudspeaker from the mosque. After this the loudspeaker was removed and again asked to follow the rules.