A man selling lottery tickets was sentenced to 15 days in prison for playing his loudspeaker at night. The judgment was handed down on November 1 at the Pazuntaung Township court.
According to the Pazuntaung Township police station, the man behind this grievous crime is U Khin Maung Oo, 52, from Thaketa Township.
People in the area where he was selling the tickets called the police when they woke up to his loudspeaker at 2:30am.
An officer from the police station told The Voice: “He was selling lottery tickets from a car while playing a loudspeaker very noisily while people were trying to sleep. First, he was asked to stop, but he played his loudspeaker again. He was charged for disturbing the public.”
In May, Tin Aung Htun, Yangon Region’s minister for border affairs and security, said those who violate the rules about loudspeakers will face a maximum fine of K5,000 or seven days in prison.
A Dutch tourist was sentenced last month to three months in prison for the crime of unplugging a loudspeaker in a Buddhist prayer hall in Mandalay that was playing loudly at 10pm near his hotel.
