Kolkata, Aug. 6 -- Loudspeakers used for azan (call to prayer) were removed from several mosques across West Bengal on Wednesday following verbal instructions from local police, prompting objections from Muslim clerics who said there was no written order directing such statewide action. "There is no court order or government notification that says loudspeakers must be summarily removed from all mosques... Instead, masjid officials were threatened and asked to remove the loudspeakers. Isn't this a violation of law?" said Maulana Muhammad Shafique Qasmi, Imam of Kolkata's Nakhoda Mosque. Several imams told HT that police officials asked mosque committees to remove loudspeakers without producing any written order. "All I came to know is that v...