Making it clear that places of worships of any religion cannot violate norms of noise pollution limits, the High Court on Wednesday directed the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) to submit a consolidated data of noise levels recorded at various monitoring stations in the city.

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D.H. Waghela and Justice Ram Mohan Reddy passed the interim order on the two public interest litigation petitions – one complaining about noise pollution caused by a mosque in Bengaluru and the other complaining about pollution caused by a temple attached to a marriage hall in Mysuru.

The Bench sought noise levels recorded at these two places of worships.

The Bench said that be it a mosque or a temple, no place of worship can be exempted from following the Supreme Court guidelines on permissible noise level.

Bench seeks noise level data recorded near a temple and a mosque