The police in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district have filed a first information report against an imam, or religious leader, for allegedly playing a loudspeaker at a mosque beyond the permissible decibel limit, The Indian Express reported on Monday.

Maulana Rafique Khan, the imam of Ghumthal village, had been repeatedly warned against breaching the decibel limit following complaints from residents, the newspaper quoted the police as saying.

However, the decibel level at which the loudspeaker was playing was not specified.

Khan was booked on a complaint by Sub-Inspector Sonu Chaudhary, who claimed that he found the mosque’s loudspeaker volume exceeding permissible levels during a routine patrol.

Manoj Verma, the station house officer of Baniyather Police Station, said that Chaudhary

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