The Jammu and Kashmir government’s orders do not expose any reason for making mobile 4G Web unattainable throughout the Union Territory (UT), the Supreme Court said in an order on Monday.
Besides, the federal government orders snipping the Internet speed to 2G were implied to operate for just a restricted time.
” Although today orders indicate that they have been passed for a restricted period of time, they do not provide any reasons to show that all the districts of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir require the imposition of such restrictions. At the very same time, we do identify that the Union Territory has been plagued with militancy, which is needed to be taken into consideration,” a three-judge Bench led by Justice N.V. Ramana observed in the 19- page order.
The order was based upon petitions submitted separately by media experts, school associations and civilians declaring that lack of access to high-speed Web in J&K had actually paralyzed medical efforts to include the COVID-19 contagion and pulled the carpet under online e