India, Sept. 22 -- NEW DELHI

For a third consecutive day, boom boxes continued to reverberate across south, east and southeast Delhi, continuing to put residents through a harrowing time on Sunday, as truck-mounted loudspeakers belted out devotional songs at deafening levels on the eve of Navratri.

The use of loudspeakers after 10pm is banned through Supreme Court orders nationwide, but Delhi Police appeared to be unable to enforce it with residents saying they were left sleepless with sound so intense that it shook their doors and windows as these vehicles rolled by overnight on Saturday and Sunday. The noise continued in several parts of the city at the time of going to print at midnight.

Deekshita Baruah, a 40-year-old resident of G...