The Haryana Government on Friday ordered the suspension of mobile internet and bulk SMS services in the district for two days to stop “the spread of misinformation and rumours” after Congress MLA Mamman Khan was detained in connection with the July 31 communal violence in Nuh. However, a government decree in this respect makes no mention of Khan’s detention.

According to the order issued by TVSN Prasad, additional chief secretary for the home department, “This order is issued to prevent any disturbance of peace and public order in the jurisdiction of Nuh district and shall be in force with effect from September 15 (10am) to September 16 midnight.”

“The mobile internet has been suspended,” he declared. This is to stop the spread of false information and rumours through social media platforms, like WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, etc. on mobile phones and SMS, to facilitate and mobilise mobs of agitators and demonstrators who can seriously cause loss of life and damage to public and private properties by engaging in arson or vandalism and other types of violent activities.

In the Nuh district’s jurisdiction, Prasad’s directive states, “I do hereby order the suspension of mobile internet services (2G/3G/4G/5G/CDMA/GPRS), bulk SMS (except banking and mobile recharge), and all dongle services, etc. He stressed that the exemption of individual SMS, mobile recharge, banking SMS, voice calls, internet services supplied by broadband, and leasing lines of corporate and private families was done so with the utmost consideration for the convenience of the general people”.

According to the ruling, this guarantees that neither the state’s commercial or financial interests nor the essential domestic necessities of people be harmed.

Security stepped up after Mamman Khan’s arrest

The Ferozepur Jhirka Congress member Mamman Khan was listed as a suspect in a FIR filed in response to the racial disturbances. The Haryana Police reported that he was taken into custody late Thursday night.

Khan was identified in one of the FIRs filed to investigate the Nuh violence, the state administration had told the Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday. In his court filing, the Congress MLA requested protection against “false implication” and his arrest in relation to the events on July 31.

The MLA petitioned the high court after receiving a notification from the police to participate in the inquiry. On account of his health, the Congress MLA opted out of the investigation.

When the issue came up for court on Thursday, the state administration said that, contrary to what the MLA claimed, it was discovered during investigation that the MLA was located within 1.5 kilometres of the scene of the violence that took place on July 29 and 30, according to the position of the tower.

Following Khan’s arrest, sufficient police resources have been placed in the Nuh district. The court complex, where Khan is anticipated to be presented by the police later today, has been given a high level of protection.

Following the incident on July 31, the Haryana government also temporarily halted mobile Internet connectivity in the area last month.
On July 31, crowds in Nuh assaulted a march headed by the Vishva Hindu Parishad. Six individuals died, the most of them during the assault. In a connected attack on a mosque in neighbouring Gurugram, a priest lost his life.

Haryana unit of Bajrang Dal quits in protest

To protest the arrest of their members Mohit Yadav, alias Monu Manesar, and Raj Kumar, aka Bittu Bajrangi, the entire Bajrang Dal unit in Haryana resigned from their positions on Thursday. The unit charged Manohar Lal Khattar, the chief minister, with failing to support right-wing groups in relation to the Nuh violence.

The arrest of Monu, who was handed over to the Rajasthan Police in connection with the deaths of two Muslim men in Bhiwani, and Khattar’s denial of a government post to a Panipat Bajrang Dal worker who died during the Nuh violence infuriated the activists.

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The Rajasthan Police arrested Manesar, a cow vigilante, in connection with the deaths of Nasir and Junaid and on charges of instigating riots in Nuh. Tuesday marked the culmination of an eight-month search when the Haryana Police captured him.

Source: ANI

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