“There are a large number of people associated with the telecom business and it’s not possible to provide individual security to all of them,” said Javed Gilani, Inspector General of Police to NDTV, adding that “militants had installed a communication system on a telecom tower in Sopore, and after we seized it, they started pressuring people.” The officials said the terrorists want to warn the region not to cooperate with the police against them.
On Monday, one employee was killed and two wounded when terrorists fired at a franchise outlet of BSNL, a state-owned telecommunications company in Sopore near Srinagar.
24 hours before that, two grenades were hurled at a mobile phone tower used by Vodafone, Aircel and Airtel near a police station in Sopore. One of the grenades exploded near the tower without causing any damage.
Posters last week appeared in the same area, warning phone companies to shut down their operations and landlords to end the leases.
“We warn these telecommunication companies to close all networking services, close their offices and stop recharging services as well. We warn the retailers as well to stop recharging the subscribers within seven days,” the posters read.
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