ANOTHER PETITION
Fresh petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against Union Home Secretary, Ajay Kumar Bhalla, and Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir, B. V. R. Subrahmanyam, for their alleged “wilful disobedience” in complying with the supreme court’s order for setting up a “special committee” to consider restoration of 4G internet services in Jammu and Kashmir.
Court has in its order asked these officers to make a special committee and consider restoration of 4G internet service as the government lawyers opposed the lifting of ban on the high speed internet giving instances of growing violence in Kashmir.
It is in place to mention that on 11 May 2020, a bench headed by Justice N V Ramana had ordered setting up of a “special committee” headed by the Union Home Secretary to consider pleas for restoration of 4G internet services in J-K, saying national security and human rights needed to be balanced in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
The contempt plea, filed by Foundation for Media Professionals, has alleged that the concerned authorities have not yet constituted the special committee in line with the top court’s order. It is the same organization on whose writ petition the Supreme Court has delivered the earlier order.
In the writ petition the petitioners have quoted the health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic and have said that high speed internet was more needed by the patients and doctors in Kashmir valley.
