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| Men of votesman of courts | | Bhim rushes SC against prepaid cell phone ban | |
EARLY TIMES
Jammu, Nov 3: Panthers Party leader Bhim Singh’s most popular refrain that his party ‘may lose in votes but not always in courts’ has really something cogent to offer –this time a hope to more than three million pre-paid cell phone users and at least three thousand youths making an earning out of it.
Even as all major political parties and leaders are flooding the newspapers with their statements of protest on cell phone ban, the unique among all, Bhim Singh has knocked the doors of Supreme Court seeking a direction against what he called draconian law of the Union Home Ministry.
The Panthers Party today moved a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India challenging the order of the Union Home Minister to ban pre-paid mobile phone services in Jammu and Kashmir. Prof. Bhim Singh, himself a legal luminary, in his submission before the Supreme Court stated that the order of the Union Home Minister to ban mobile services in J&K was arbitrary, unconstitutional, improper, and malafide.
Prof. Bhim Singh in the petition further stated that the procedure to provide mobile services in J&K could be improved, validated and properly taken care of. This is like killing a patient then curing him.
More than three millions people he said have been affected from a rich man to a poor safai karamchari throughout the state. He said the Union Home Ministry has not applied its mind before passing such an authoritarian order affecting basic and fundamental rights of the citizens of India in J&K.
Meanwhile, the New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah today said that the ban imposed by the Centre on prepaid mobile phone connections in Jammu and Kashmir was "temporary" and would be lifted soon.
"The ban on prepaid cell phone connections in the state is temporary and would be lifted soon," Abdullah told reporters in Srinagar. Abdullah said the ban was imposed as Centre had apprehensions that the mobile connections were being misused.
"The state government has already taken up the issue with the Centre and very soon the facility of prepaid connections would be restored in the state," Abdullah said.
The ban was imposed in the state from November one in the wake of reports that proper verification is not being done while providing such connections by the service providers/vendors raising security concerns.
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