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The Supreme Court is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Monday on petitions seeking the restoration of 4G mobile Internet in Jammu and Kashmir amid the blockade of COVID-19.
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The petitions have argued that 4G speed was essential for healthcare, education, and commerce / business in the Union Territory during the pandemic.
A bank led by Judge N.V. Ramana had recently reserved his judgment on the case. The court agreed that 4G was faster than 2G Internet, although a balance would have to be struck between health care at the time of the pandemic and national security concerns in Jammu and Kashmir.
On the last day of the hearing in the case, the petitioners led by the Forum of Media Professionals, represented by Chief Counsel Huzefa Ahmadi and Counsel Shadan Farasat, had even argued that the ‘Aarogya Setu’ application, which the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had encouraged the public to download to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, unable to download at J&K at 2G speed.
The petitioners had responded to the official narrative in court that 4G speed facilitated terrorism, saying that “there is no rational relationship between the legitimate objective of the State [curbing terrorism] and the method used [restricting access to the Internet]Prosecutor General K.K. Venugopal had referred to the meeting in Handwara, in northern Kashmir, which killed several members of the army.
Mr. Ahmadi had argued that access to information via the Internet was protected by freedom of expression under the Constitution. The government’s responsibility would be to establish that restricting Internet access is rationally related to its goal of curbing terror.
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