Mobile internet banned, again
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 26 2023:
Hardly two days after mobile internet data service was resumed in Manipur, the State Government yet again shut the service for a period of five days.
An order issued to this effect said mobile internet data services, internet/data services through VPN in Manipur have been suspended with immediate effect till 7.45 pm of October 1 .
Notably, this order to suspend the mobile internet data service came after the photographs of bodies of two missing Meitei students surfaced on social media triggering massive protests in Imphal and other places.
Shut since May 3, mobile internet data was resumed on September 23 .
The suspension is to check disinformation, false rumours on social media and sending of bulk messages which may facilitate mobilization of mobs and demon- strators, said the order issued today.