Internet services were to remain suspended as a precautionary measure in 13 police station jurisdictions of Jaipur until 10 am today after a seven-year-old girl was raped in the city on July 1, UNI reported. Suraj Chaudhry, an official at the Jaipur Collectorate, told MediaNama at 10.30 am that services would be resumed "in three to four hours". Internet services were suspended on July 2, after rumours began to circulate on social media and mobs went on a rampage following the rape the previous day. Internet services were to originally resume at 10 am on Wednesday. Divisional Commissioner K. C. Verma had issued the order on Tuesday for the temporary restriction of internet services in the jurisdictions of the following 13 police stations: Shastrinagar, Ramganj, Galata Gate, Manak Chowk, Subhash Chowk, Brahmampuri, Nahargarh, Kotwali, Sanjay Circle, Bhatta Basti, Lal Kothi, Adarshnagar and Sadar. Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which prohibits five or more persons from assembling, was also imposed in these areas. We had reported yesterday that there had been 11 internet shutdowns across India in June, according to SFLC’s internet shutdown tracker. Of these, 7 were in Jammu and Kashmir, and 2 were in West Bengal, while UP and Odisha saw one shutdown each. With the Jaipur shutdown, there have now been 60 reported internet shutdowns in India this year. https://twitter.com/internetfreedom/status/1146425672455168000 Rajasthan saw 30 shutdowns in 2018, 3 in 2019 According to the SFLC, Rajasthan has seen only two internet shutdowns so far this year (the latest…
