Mobile services jammed in Jammu and Kashmir during R-Day

In an unprecedented security measure, mobile services were jammed in the entire state today for nearly 10 hours following intelligence inputs of the possibility of cell phones being used by militants to engineer blasts on Republic Day, police said here.

The mobile services were jammed as a security measure in entire Jammu and Kashmir in view the intelligence reports of apprehension of use of mobiles for engineering blast on Republic Day in J&K, a senior police official said.

The services of seven service providers - BSNL, Airtel, Vodafone, Tata Indicom, Aircel, Idea and Reliance - were jammed from 3 am to 1 pm in entire J&K today, he said.

However, landline phones continued their functioning as usual in Jammu and Kashmir.

Intelligence agencies had warned that bomb fitted mobiles could be detonated through a phone call in a bid to disrupt celebrations on R-day.

"The mobile services were restored after 1 am, when all the R-day functions had concluded in capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar besides the districts headquarters, where the governor NN Vohra unfurled the tri-colour", the official said.