SRINAGAR: Mobile internet services have resumed on Wednesday, nearly 24 hours after they were blocked following the killing of a young man in north Kashmir.
The service was barred amid other restrictions like a curfew on Wednesday in downtown Srinagar and many other towns.
Tahir Ahmed Sofi died after he was hit by bullets in the head and chest in Baramulla district on Tuesday.
Customer care executives of the leading cellular operator, Airtel said the services were blocked after a ‘government order’. “Government has ordered to stop the services due to some security reasons,” one Airtel executive had told this reporter over phone.
Mobile internet of service providers like Reliance and Airtel have been suspended, but the government-run BSNL’s Broadband was working.
Last month, the services were suspended for days following the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah then justified the ban on mobile internet services saying the “restrictions were necessary”.
“Main reason to restrict the mobile services is they are the only source to spread rumours,” he had said.
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