No prepaid mobile connections in JK from Nov 1

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Following the reports that militants were getting mobile SIM cards on fake identities thus posing threat to the security and intelligence establishments, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided that no prepaid mobile connections would be issued and existing prepaid SIM cards would not be renewed in Jammu and Kashmir after November 1, 2009.

Union Home Ministry has asked the Department of Telecommunications to take appropriate action to implement the decision. This move comes after reports that militants were getting mobile SIM cards on fake documents, setting off alarm bells in the security and intelligence establishments of the insurgency-hit state.

The step comes in the wake of the reports that proper verification is not being done while providing such prepaid mobile connections by the service providers and vendors. In some cases, a single person had been issued with multiple numbers of connections.

The fake documents and identity cards are also being used by the vendors particularly, in the case of prepaid connections. This situation has given rise to serious security concerns. Intelligence agencies have been maintaining that private service providers were overlooking security parameters to push their sales.