"This interim order means continuation of silence zones which existed earlier," the court said. "If you look at the definition of court, then even if arbitrators are sitting somewhere then 100 meteres around that area becomes silence zone. Hospital according to rules meant that even a small homeopathy or a dental clinic would also become silence zone." He told the court that according to old noise rules virtually 70 to 75 percent of Mumbai had become a silence zone and that is why there was a need for an amendment. Singh also put the blame of absence of silence zone on Maharashtra government and said, "I agree that there is a need for silence zone and there is a provision for silence zone in the amended rules.

Source: India Today September 01, 2017 18:33 UTC