Bombay High Court Directs Maharashtra Government on PIL Over Loudspeaker Use for Azan

• Bombay High Court orders Maharashtra government to respond to PIL’s request for 24 mosques to use loudspeakers for Azan.

• The petition, filed by Hazrat Khwaja Garib Nawaz Welfare Association Maharashtra, seeks regulated use of loudspeakers in specific mosques.

• State government questions petitioner’s credibility and locus standi.

• Government pleader P.H. Kantharia alleges Ansari violated an externment order by entering Mumbai to file the petition.