Petitioner seeks access to publicly available Wi-Fi

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has put the state of Punjab on notice on a petition seeking provision for alternative means to access the Internet through publicly available Wi-Fi or broadband when mobile data services are suspended by the state.

Petitioner Neeraj, through counsel Abhijeet Singh Rawaley, Ashutosh Dhankar and Sahil Mehndiratta, submitted that the suspension of mobile Internet services had an adverse, disproportionate and discriminatory impact on a particular section of citizens, whose sole means to access the Internet was through mobile data services.