Following the withdrawal of a public interest petition filed against the shutdown of mobile internet services in some parts of central Delhi, a Delhi court has ordered the case to be dismissed.
The legal services organization Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.In) filed a public interest petition challenging the Home Ministry’s orders to suspend all mobile internet services within a radius of about 1.5 kilometers around Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
The petitioner pointed out that these shutdown orders were illegal, arbitrary, and unconstitutional, and questioned why no public emergency had been cited and why it was necessary to completely shut down mobile internet services.
Following this, on July 25, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned after accepting the demands set by the CJP. The protest, which had continued for more than a month, was also called off after the central government accepted CJP’s other demands.
Subsequently, internet services were restored immediately in central Delhi.
Following this, in this case, on the basis of the withdrawal of the petition filed by Software Freedom Law Centre, India, the bench comprising Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia ordered the dismissal of the case.
