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| Error Sending Message….. | | 36 hours after HC orders SMS still banned | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Aug 5
Error Sending Message…this is what you get on mobile phones while sending an SMS since Sunday morning. Despite High Court orders, the Short Messaging Services (SMS) has still not been restored by the telecom operators even as the rumour mongers continued to have field day.
The SMS services were suspended on the instructions of administration to avoid spread of rumours. Though the messages were not restored, but the rumour mongers continued to have field day. This newspaper was called up by the people over two dozen times today to ascertain as how many people were killed in Akhnoor while the fact was that no one was killed.
More than 36 hours have passed that the state High Court passed orders on restoring the SMS service of telecom providers but still the messaging services have not been thrown open. The court had also made many important directions which have not been implemented by the authorities so far.
A specially constituted Division Bench of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, while hearing a Public Interest Litigation on Monday, had passed clear directions to the authorities to restore the Short Messaging Services of the telecom providers. Among other directions passed by the Court were free movement of media persons and all those people carrying valid curfew passes.
Second day has passed since the High Court directions but the SMS service has not been restored. Elated by the High Court orders, after reading it this morning's newspapers, many people pressed their message buttons but the phones were still responding as "Error Sending Message".
Not only that the SMS services have not been restored in Jammu despite High Court orders, the service was banned in Srinagar late Monday evening. SMS suspension in Srinagar was ordered 12 hours after the High Court orders. All three Telecom service providers –the BSNL, Airtel and Aircel –are still keeping their SMS services in suspended condition.
When contacted, a top official of BSNL, wishing not to be named, told EARLY TIMES, there were directions from the Government of India to keep the SMS facility suspended till further orders. He said that the High Court order has not been served upon them in writing and therefore the order received by them on Sunday, asking to suspend the SMS services is still in operation.
Among other directions, the High Court's Divisional Bench had asked the authorities to allow free movement of media persons and all those persons who carried valid curfew passes. However, despite these orders, the media persons and many curfew pass holders continued to face difficulties.
A team of this newspaper tried to move across the town to check whether HC orders were being observed. It was found that the curfew enforcers were dealing strictly with the media persons and neither their cards were being treated as curfew passes nor were the passes issued by the administration respected at many places. |
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