{"id":23282,"date":"2020-04-08T22:48:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/sc-to-hear-petition-seeking-restoration-of-4g-internet-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T22:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:18:36","slug":"sc-to-hear-petition-seeking-restoration-of-4g-internet-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23282","title":{"rendered":"SC to hear petition seeking restoration of 4G internet tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Srinagar, March 08:<\/strong> The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear a petition seeking restoration of 4G internet in Jammu &amp; Kashmir. The petition is listed before a three-judge bench comprising Justice N.V. Ramana ,Justice Subash Reddy and Justice B.R.Gavai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The advocates will address the court through videoconferencing mode in terms of circular issued by the Court on March 23 and 26. As per wire service\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) a petition was filed in the Supreme Court on April 2 seeking restoration of 4G mobile services in the area during the period of lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petition filed by \u201cFoundation for Media Professionals\u201d contends that the patients, doctors, and the general public of Jammu &amp; Kashmir are unable to access the latest information, guidelines, advisories, and restrictions about COVID19 that are being made available and continuously updated online on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petitioner asserted that doctors are not able to access online resources on measures to curb COVID-19 at all, due to the internet speed being too slow to download heavy files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petitioner has also submitted that slow internet speeds rendered &#8220;telemedicine&#8221; or online video consultation impossible. The petition stated that restoration of full-fledged internet services is also crucial to strictly implement the &#8220;work from home&#8221; policy being promoted by the government\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, March 08: The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear a petition seeking restoration of 4G internet in Jammu &amp; Kashmir. The petition is listed before a three-judge bench comprising Justice N.V. Ramana ,Justice Subash Reddy and Justice B.R.Gavai. The advocates will address the court through videoconferencing mode in terms of circular issued by the Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}