O R D E R
1.
Again, this Court is called upon to address a very important but a
sensitive issue on national security and human rights, wherein we
have to ensure that national security and human rights can be
reasonably and defensibly balanced, a responsibility, that this
Court takes with utmost seriousness.
2.
This Court, vide its earlier judgment dated 10.01.2020 in
Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India, (2020) SCC Online SC 25,
gave certain directions regarding the imposition of restrictions on
the internet in a proportionate manner. The aforesaid case had, in
addition to the procedural rules, supplemented the requirements of
having timely review and the nonpermanence of internet
shutdown orders.
3.
The three Petitioners before us are aggrieved by the fact that
Respondent No. 1 has restricted the mobile internet speed to 2G
and have approached this Court seeking 4G mobile internet, and
the quashing of the impugned orders restricting internet in the
Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
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