IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

217 COCP-4145-2024 (O&M)

Date of Decision: 02.09.2025 Hardik Ahluwalia ......Petitioner Vs.

Gaurav Yadav, IPS and others .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE SUDEEPTI SHARMA Present: Mr. Hardik Ahluwalia, Advocate petitioner-in-person.

Mr. Jaivir S. Chandail, Advocate (through VC)

for respondent No.3-UT Chandigarh.

Mr. Ravneet Singh Joshi, DAG, Punjab Mr. Harish Nain, AAG, Haryana ****

SUDEEPTI SHARMA J. (Oral)

1. The present contempt petition has been filed for alleges willful disobedience of the judgment rendered by the Division Bench of this Court in CWP-6213-2016, decided on 22.07.2019.

2. The petitioner, appearing in person, contends that notwithstanding the said judgment, songs glorifying violence, drugs and liquor continue to be played at marriage functions, clubs, discotheques and public events, and that such content remains readily available on online platforms like YouTube, Apple Music, JioSaavn, Wynk Music and Spotify.

3. I have heard the petitioner-in-person and, with his able assistance, carefully perused the case file.

4. Before proceeding further, it is apposite to reproduce the relevant mandatory directions issued by the Division Bench in CWP-6213-

2016. The relevant portion is reproduced as under::-

“28. Accordingly, the writ petitions are disposed of with the following mandatory directions:-

i) The States of Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory, Chandigarh are directed to ensure that no loudspeaker or public address system shall be used by any person including religious bodies in Temples, Mosques and Gurudwaras without written permission of the authority even during day time, that too, by getting an undertaking that the noise level shall not exceed more than 10dB(A) peripheral noise level.

ii) The States of Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory, Chandigarh are directed to ensure that the loudspeaker, public address system, musical instrument and sound amplifier are not played during night time except in auditoria, conference rooms, community halls, banquet halls as per norms laid down under the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000. iii) The States of Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory, Chandigarh are directed to ensure that loud speakers or public address systems are not used between 10.00 p.m. to 6.00 a.m., except between 10.00 p.m. to 12.00 midnight during any cultural or religious festive occasion of a limited duration not exceeding 15 days in all during a calendar year, that too, the noise level shall not exceed 10dB(A) above the ambient noise standards for the area. The peripheral noise level of a privately owned sound system or a sound producing instrument shall not, at the boundary of the private place, exceed by more than 5dB (A). The authority concerned shall keep on visiting and monitoring at the public places, private places, auditoriums, conference rooms, community halls, banquet halls, temples, mosques and Gurudwaras to ensure due compliance of the Rules.

iv) We direct all the Senior Superintendents of Police/

Superintendents of Police in the States of Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory, Chandigarh to ensure that no horn shall be blown in silence zone or during the night time between 10.00 p.m. to 06.00 a.m. in residential areas except during public emergency. No sound emitting construction equipments shall be used or operated during the night time between 10.00 p.m. to 06.00 a.m. in residential areas or silence zone. m. The pressure horns are banned throughout the States of Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory, Chandigarh. The violators of the Rules be penalized under the Rule 6 of the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000.

v) All the Senior Superintendents of Police/

Superintendents of Police and Deputy Superintendent of Police in the States of Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory, Chandigarh are directed to ensure that motorcycles throughout the States of Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory, Chandigarh are duly fitted with s