By TCN News,
New Delhi: As precaution to maintain peace in the wake of the Babri Masjid verdict, the central government today extended ban on bulk SMS and MMS throughout the country till September 30. Earlier on September 22, all bulk SMS and MMS messages were banned for next 72 hours.
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has today issued orders in consultation with the Ministry of Home Affairs to all Mobile Telecom Service Providers in the country that all bulk SMS and all bulk MMS messages shall remain banned in all service areas till September 30, 2010.
The Babri verdict was to be delivered by the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court on September 24 but a day before, the Supreme Court deferred it by one week. The SC will hear petition to defer it for long on September 28.