Internet services were snapped in Jammu & Kashmir by the authorities sensing trouble on the festival of Eid. Internet services remained suspended on 25th and 26th september and were resumed only by BSNL broadband on 27th September on 8Pm.
The resuming time was earlier stated by authorities as 10 Am on 27th but it kept on increasing till it was finally resumed at 8Pm.
Tourism and business sectors were worst hit with this blackout.The measure was taken because of apprehension of communal tension in the backdrop of the High Court directive for implementation of an old law that bans slaughter and selling of beef. Some separatist groups have said they will defy the court order.
The state government's move was widely criticised by opposition parties. Former chief minister Omar Abdullah said,"The irony of listening to Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi lecturing about connected digital India while we are totally disconnected." "The PDP-BJP regime is pushing people of the state to the wall," he said. Abdullah said that Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was living up to his promise of making the state like Gujarat. "He had promised to make the state like Gujarat. Now, I guess, we are competing with Gujarat as to who bans the internet more," he said.
