Following communal clashes between Hindus and Muslims, mobile Internet services we restored on Tuesday in Bijnor district in Uttar Pradesh, reports Times of India. Violence erupted in the district last week on the 16th and three people were killed after a girl was allegedly harassed which triggered a fight with between the communities. To maintain law and order and curb the spread of rumours through social media, authorities cut mobile Internet services. Typically bans such as this are enforced under Section 144 of the CrPC (Criminal Procedure Code) which allows local law administration to ban unlawful assembly and justify short bans on Internet services. Last month, mobile Internet services were cut off in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh since Tuesday after authorities feared a law and order situation in the state’s capital following the suicide of former chief minister Kalikho Pul. This is the 16th incident where mobile Internet services were cut since September 2015. The number of Internet blocks has increased dramatically the Supreme Court’s ruling which upheld the districts and states’ right to ban mobile Internet services for maintaining law and order in February. Kashmir Internet services Mobile Internet services continue to be cut off in the Kashmir valley extending to three months now. Services were cut in over 10 districts on July 9 after security forces killed militant Burhan Wani which sparked widespread protests and violence. However there were brief moments where some services were restored. In August, the Jammu & Kashmir state administration blocked GPRS-operated WhatsApp ‘as a precautionary measure’ to keep rumours in check last Friday (5…
Please subscribe to MediaNama. Don't share prints and PDFs.
You May Also Like
News
Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...
Advert
135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...
News
By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...
News
Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...