JUDGMENT :

Shashi Kant Gupta, J.

1. The matter was taken up by this Court on 05.05.2020 through Video Conferencing, in view of the outbreak of the pandemicCovid-19. Mr. Syed Safdar Ali Kazmi and Mr. Fazal Hasnain, Advocates appeared before this Court in the present Civil Misc. Writ Petition (PIL) No. 570 of 2020 (Shri Afzal Ansari Vs. State of UP and two others) on behalf of the petitioners and Mr. Manish Goel Additional Advocate General for the State through Video Conferencing.

2. A letter dated 26.04.2020 was written by Mr. Afzal Ansari, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), Ghazipur with a prayer that fundamental right to religion of the people at Ghazipur may be protected and the State Administration may be directed to permit recite the Azan by only one person “Muezzin” from the respective mosques of the District Ghazipur, since it does not violate any of the directives issued for controlling the threat of the spread of the Covid-19, pandemic. Mr. Salman Khurshid, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court as well as Former Union Minister for Law & Justice, Govt. of India has by a letter dated 28.04.2020, approached this Court through Mr. Syed Mohd. Fazal, Advocate, seeking that Muslims at Farruk