Religious sites in Mumbai now ‘loudspeaker-free’: Police

MUMBAI: Mumbai Police Commissioner Deven Bharti on Saturday asserted that the city is now entirely free of directional loudspeakers after its personnel successfully completed a comprehensive crackdown on public address systems at all religious structures.

“All loudspeakers from religious structures have been removed. Mumbai is now loudspeaker-free from all religious structures,” Bharti told Newsmen.

The police commissioner, refuting claims of selective targeting, made it clear that religious structures of a particular community had not been singled out and stressed that the operation was conducted methodically, in line with the Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s directive for proper and non-arbitrary action.