Noise Pollution
Saahilkumar mehta
(Querist) 25 February 2011
This query is : Resolved
Good Morning to all.
I have been living in a Society for four years with my family.All are rowhouses or tenament divided by a common wall. My neighbour has been renovating his house for more than three months. Lately he started furniture works making i.e. cupboard, door all major works. His carpenter does all these in his compound from morning 9:00 AM till 9:00 PM. Then He comes again the same day after a break at 10:00 pm and works till 2:00 AM in the morning. The distance from where his carpenter works and my house is hardly eight to ten foot. The problem is his work involves or includes hammering & drilling machine it makes lot of noise which is quite disturbing, It takes away my and my family's peace. we cannot sleep at night. I couple of days back could not sleep and at around 1:00 am in the morning requested him to please stop these works after 10:00 pm. But even on my repeated requests he didnt stop and did the same the next day. He is an advocate so he bluntly said do what ever you want to do.
I dont want to argue but he compels me to do so. This is quite disturbing to us.
My all efforts of request have failed.
What can be done legally to stop him from doing so?
I also have another question sir.
As construction work is going on in his house he also furnished the common wall putting tiles on his part of wall and on the common wall that divides our houses. Can he do that without my permission. If he does somthing like this to the common wall in future can i stop him. How can I stop him legally to do such things. As he is an Advocate I think he knows the laws better than me so i think he is at advantage than a common man who does not know law.
Are there any Books in law about harrasment by neighbours that guides a common man regarding these laws, specially about rights.
Sri Vijayan.A
(Expert) 26 February 2011
Check with the Factory Rules and norms by pollution control board of your state.
But you can send legal notice/ initiate suit if the manufacturing unit is in residential area and the sound/ noise disturb you.
Saahilkumar mehta
(Querist) 27 February 2011
Thank you sir for your reply.
But the question is that there is no manufacturing unit. Some rennovation work is going on in residential house of my neighbour. The carpenter is making cupboards, trollies, etc from wood by using machines, drilling, hammering andfixing the wood, cutting the wood, building new furniture in his own house. All these works are carried even beyond 9:00 am to 9:00 pm and 10:00 pm to 2:00 am. this is quite disturbing and we cannot sleep at night due to the continuous sound of hammering and mahcines. I had requested him to stop work at night repeatedly but of no use. please guide me. I dont want to argue with him but it is matter of my right to live peacefully, which has been denied to me and my family by my neighbour. Please guide me what can be legally done.Can I file a police complaint or not.
