Bantwal: A 32-year-old man died on Monday after he reportedly fell from a tree near Kalladka here. The person, identified as Sharif, died in a Mangaluru hospital where he was shifted for treatment.

Sharif is reportedly a resident of Kodapadavu in Bantwal taluk, who was staying at his grandfather’s house in Amtur near Kalladka when the incident took place.

According to the details, Sharif was felling a tree on Sunday, when he is said to have toppled off the tree. He was rushed to a private hospital in Mangaluru immediately after the incident.

Failing to respond to the treatment, however, Sharif breathed his last on Monday.

He is survived by his wife and a five-month-old child.

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Prayagraj, Jan 24 (PTI): The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed a writ petition seeking direction to the state authorities to permit the mounting of loudspeakers on a Masjid.

The court observed that the religious places were for offering prayers, therefore the use of loudspeakers was not a matter of right.

Dismissing the writ petition filed by Pilibhit-resident Mukhtiyar Ahmad, a two judge-bench, comprising Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Donadi Ramesh, observed, "Religious places are for offering prayers to the divinity and use of loudspeakers cannot be claimed as a matter of right, particularly when often such use of loudspeakers create nuisance for the residents".

At the outset, the state counsel objected to the maintainability of the writ on the grounds that the petitioner was neither a mutawalli, nor did the mosque belong to him.

The court also noted that the petitioner did not have locus to file the writ petition.

The term 'locus' is a legal concept that refers to the right of a person or entity to participate in a legal proceeding or bring a lawsuit.