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| Service providers to face contempt of Supreme Court in J&K | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 22- Prof Bhim Singh Chairman Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party today said the Union Home Minister has reached some secret understanding with the mobile phone service providers, Airtel, BSNL, Vodafone, Aircel, Tata Indicom, Reliance and Idea, to provide pre-paid mobile service to the subscribers whose pre-paid service was banned wef November 1, 2009 in the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The service providers have reached certain understanding with the Union Home Ministry to raise their revenues by illegal, fraudulent and unconstitutional methods, he added.
In a letter to the Union Telecommunications Minister, Bhim has urged him for his immediate intervention to save the poor subscribers of pre-paid mobile phones from another deceit. The service providers shall be robbing Rs.40 crores every month from the ‘wretched of earth’ in J&K, Singh said and charged the officials of DoT of being instrumental to rob the poor and please the Home Minister, he observed. He said that will soon file a contempt petition in the Supreme Court against the service providers if they fail to return the money collected from the subscribers.
Prof Singh has already filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the Union Home Minister’s orders, terming it as illegal and unconstitutional. Nearly 38 lakh subscribers were affected by this mindless order of the Central Minister, Bhim had submitted in the petition. On the request of the Union Government, the Chief Justice of India granted two weeks time to the Union of India to file their reply and the case has been listed on January 8, 2010 for final disposal.
Prof Singh said that realizing that the Home Minister has no case and he shall meet his waterloo in the legal battle against the Panthers Party Supremo in the Supreme Court, the Union of India silently directed the pre-paid service providers to start recharging the mobile services in J&K.
Prof. Bhim Singh, who is arguing the case for four million citizens in Jammu and Kashmir, has expressed deep shock how the mobile service providers including Airtel, BSNL, Vodafone and all others, have literally flouted the Supreme Court of India by playing fraudulent means and hide and seek with the Apex Court by charging Rs.100 service fees from each subscriber for each month since December 19 and started issuing fresh SIMs and recharging the ongoing connections by charging Rs.3 (extra) every day from each subscriber which comes to be Rs.99 per month..
Prof. Bhim Singh has declared that he shall be moving contempt application against the service providers in J&K if they don’t return the money collected by them immediately. Since Supreme Court is on vacation till January 3, 2010, he shall move the contempt petition against all the service providers on the day the Apex Court reopens he said and invited the copies of the receipts from all the subscribers of J&K so that their individual claims could be moved accordingly.
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