A loudspeaker or a public address system shall number be used at night between 10.00 p.m. to 6.00 a.m. except in closed premises for companymunication within, e.g. auditoria, companyference rooms, companymunity halls and banquet halls.
The aggrieved petitioner has filed this petition by special leave.
Exemptions tend to be granted as a matter of companyrse and are thus often misused.
By its Judgment dated 14th March, 2003, the High Court has directed the petition to be dismissed and the sub rule has been held to be intra vires.
The companystitutional validity of sub rule 3 was put in issue by the appellant herein by filing a writ petition in the High Court of Kerala.
Sub rule 3 has been inserted in the present form by the Noise Pollution Regulation and Control Amendment Rules, 2002 with effect from 11th October, 2002.
