MEERUT, Oct. 12 -- Police have arrested a muezzin (man who proclaims azan) from a mosque in Najibabad town of Bijnor district for allegedly violating prescribed the noise limits while reciting the azan, officers aware of the matter said on Sunday.

They said Mohammad Faizan, 23, was arrested on Saturday after police allegedly found a loudspeaker operating at high volume at Najibuddoula Mosque near Government Inter College (GIC) in Najibabad.

Faizan was produced before a sub-divisional magistrate's court, which remanded him to 14 days of judicial custody, the officers said, adding that noise from sound-amplification equipment should not go beyond the premises, if permission to use a loudspeaker has not been obtained.

"The mosque manageme...