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News Update

Reported by – Aditya Prakash Verma

Security Threat or Right to Life?

The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India today took into consideration the reply by the Attorney
General in the contempt proceedings against the Jammu and Kashmir administration for not
constituting special committee as violation of the Hon’ble Apex Court’s directive vide order
dated 11.05.2020. The Attorney General K.K. Venugopal appearing against the contempt
proceedings today told the court that high speed Internet services will be restarted on trial basis
post Independence Day in certain districts of the Union Territory. He also submitted before the
court that there are still threats in border regions and therefore continuous monitoring is
necessary to ensure security of the nation and therefore the special committee has directed only
to allow access to high speed internet in areas with low intensity of terrorist activities. The
Committee also stated in its report that broadband connectivity is still available in institutional
offices.

The bench of Justices NV Ramana, R. Subhash Reddy, and BR Gavai while hearing the
contempt proceedings on August 7 was of the opinion that a reply to the restoration of High
Speed Internet in Jammu and Kashmir should be made.

The present matter is brought by Foundation for Media Professionals. In reply to the contempt
proceedings the Centre brought to the notice of the court that that a committee has been
constituted and it has mandates against lifting the internet restrictions in the Kashmir Valley. The
petitioners in their rejoinder have pointed two key issues before. They contend that the facts of
the meeting of the committee dated 15.05.2020 and 10.06.2020 should be brought in public
domain as any failure to this effect will be contrary to the law laid down in the case of Anuradha
Bhasin v. Union of India. The petitioner also brought before the court relying upon a report of
the Indian Express that Lieutenant Government G.C. Murmu has agreed to restore high speed
internet in the Kashmir Valley.
The petitioners represented by Huzefa Ahmadi, Shadan Farasat, Apar Gupta, Vrinda
Bhandari and Devdutta Mukhopadhyay brought to the knowledge of the court that though the
committee has been formed and contempt proceedings should be dropped yet the issue of
publication of restriction order should be kept by the court.

The petitioners also relied upon the fact that the Ministry of Home Affairs had maintained in its
reply that the final call will be taken by the Jammu and Kashmir administration and both the
Governor and Chief Interlocutor Ram Madhav have nodded for restarting 4G connectivity which
has been taken down for over a year now and therefore in the light of aforesaid high speed
internet connectivity should be resumed.

The court after hearing the arguments of both sides, however said that the authorities will take
try to mitigate all the possible issues and even then if the issues persist then they can come before
the court again.

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