Petitioners also raised the issue of the State writing to the Centre, asking it to relax noise rules during festivals.

Anti-noise pollution activists have raised a strong objection against Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's plans to relax noise pollution norms for the Ganesh utsav festival in silence zones.

Kolhapur: Deputy superintendent of police Prashant Amrutkar in a meeting with sound system suppliers, warned against violating clear cut guidelines issued by the Supreme Court regarding noise level

Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ojasvi Party Vs Ministry of Environment Forest dated 11/07/2017. The Applicant has alleged that Manoj Mishra and his fellow colleagues have filed several petitions in the guise of protection of environment and have adversely affected the environmental religious rights of the Hindu citizens by restraining them from immersing idols and other materials into the river Yamuna and declaring cracking of fire crackers and cremation of dead bodies by Hindus as polluting to the environment.