NEW DELHI - India's top court ruled that the "continued, limitless" Internet shutdown enforced by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kashmir for last five months is"illegal".
In a ruling that was critical of the government but stopped short of overturning the communication and transport restrictions that have been in place since Aug 5 when Mr Modi scrapped nearly seven decades of autonomous status of Kashmir, the Supreme Court ordered the government to review them in Kashmir within seven days.
The verdict will be a disappointment for Mr Modi's government, which is fast tracking implementation of his party's Hindu nationalist agenda after winning a sweeping mandate for his second term last year. In November the Supreme Court handed a victory to Hindu groups over Muslim petitioners in a centuries old dispute over the ownership of a plot of land in northern city of Ayodhya, which was claimed to be the birth place of Hindu god Ram. A medieval era mosque that stood at the disputed site was demolished by a Hindu mob in 1992.
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