Advocates noted that those celebrating festivals bypass DJ bans by stacking speakers on pushcarts or beating heavy metal cylinders with hammers.
The court criticised the current enforcement mechanism which involves police issuing minor fines of ₹5,000 that effectively act as blanket permissions to break the law.
Justice Kulkarni remarked that action must be preventive, failing which damage to thousands of citizens would be already done.
“There is no point. First violating, then going and paying a fine is no good. Filing a criminal complaint, nothing will happen. It has to be preventive. Otherwise, the damage is already done. There is no point in having this kind of mechanism. That is not the correct law and order situation,” the judge emphasised.