{"id":1238,"date":"2001-09-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/27\/2001-09-27-supreme-court-restricts-festival-firecrackers\/"},"modified":"2001-09-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-27T12:00:00","slug":"2001-09-27-supreme-court-restricts-festival-firecrackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/27\/2001-09-27-supreme-court-restricts-festival-firecrackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Restricts Festival Firecrackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.expressindia.com\/fullstory.php?newsid=2844\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 27, 2001: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Chief Justice A.S. Anand, Justice R.C. Lahoti and Justice Ashok Bhan, directed that no firecrackers be burst which could produce a noise beyond 125 decibels and that no cracker could be burst except between 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm during Diwali and Dussera festivals. Fire crackers are forbidden completely in designated &#8220;silent zones.&#8221; The Court directed all the states and Union territories to strictly enforce these directions contained in the central government regulations issued on October 5, 1995.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 27, 2001: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, comprising Chief Justice A.S.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}