The Delhi high court asked the police on Tuesday to ensure that no one uses stage and loudspeaker at a South Delhi ground for Chhat Puja by two organisers and maintain law and order. The court said that public address system should be used only by the police to address the large number of people gathered at the Chhat ground in Aya Nagar here. The court passed the order while disposing a plea filed by Purvanchal Chhat and Sanskritik Vikas Samiti, a registered society which claimed to be organising Chhat Puja for people of Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh for last 24 years. The samiti, in its petition filed through advocate Ritesh Singh (rpt Singh), sought direction prohibiting the police from issuing licence to another society -- Purvanchal Sanskritik and Samajik Vikas Manch -- for organising Chhat Puja at the ground on October 26 and 27. The petition claimed that the president of the other organiser, Purvanchal Sanskritik and Samajik Vikas Manch, was a member of BJP and he was seeing the function as an opportunity for his political ambition.

Source: Hindustan Times October 24, 2017 12:22 UTC