Overview
- About 140 chickens at a poultry farm in Sultanpur died after prolonged loud DJ music played during a nearby wedding procession in Dariyapur village.
- Police told The Indian Express that post-mortem findings pointed to heart failure brought on by acute stress in the birds.
- Following the complaint, authorities issued notices to local DJ operators to check noise-permission compliance, according to News18.
- Police registered a case against the DJ operator and event manager under public nuisance and environment laws, seized the DJ vehicle, and made a brief arrest with bail, OneIndia reported.
- Veterinary experts say sudden or sustained high-decibel sound can flood birds with stress hormones, drive up heart rate, damage inner-ear cells above roughly 120 dB, and in severe cases cause cardiac arrest, with longer-term noise linked to lower egg output, slower growth, and weaker immunity.