institutions has described 4G ban a risk factor for COVID-19 deaths in J&K, as the information about WHO's guideline on testing and its countermeasures remained inaccessible in the region. Amnesty International also urged government to restore 4G internet in critical situation of pandemic disease. Doctors, according to news media, are not able to deal the coronavirus due to non-availability of 4G internet and lack of significant information available online. In April - May 2020, Supreme Court of India heard a batch of writ petitions challenging the ban on 4G internet services. J&K administration opposed the plea stating that "the right to access the internet is not a fundamental right". On 11 May 2020, Supreme Court disposed of these petitions refusing the request for restoration of 4G internet services. Court, however, constituted a special committee composed of senior bureaucrats to look into the issue. The committee ironically was composed of the bureaucrats having a major hand in imposing the censorship. Later development High-speed cellular internet has been restored across the UT since February 2021. References Further reading Media in Jammu and Kashmir. Seshu, Geeta, ' Kashmir Media Policy: Accentuating the Curbs on the Freedom of Press', "Economic and Political Weekly", Engage Series (Aug 19, 2020). Amin, Khalid, 'Censorship, Corruption and Surveillance in Art: A Case Study of Kashmiri Theatre', The Literary Herald:, 3.4 (December 2017), 273–79. Hashim, Irfan, Freedom of Speech and Journalism in Kashmir (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013), Joseph, Teresa, 'Kashmir, human rights and the Indian press', Contemporary South Asia, 9 (2000), 41–55, . Navlakha, Gautam, Rita Manchanda and Tapan K. Bose, 'Political Situation in Kashmir: Duped by Media and Government', Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 31, no. 29 (July 20, 1996), 1927–31. Noorani, A. G., 'Academic Freedom in Kashmir and Elsewhere', Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 42, no. 36 (September 8–14, 2007), pp. 3600–3602. Puri, Balraj, Kashmir: insurgency and after (Orient Longman, 2008), pp. 70–77. Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir Censorship in India Kashmir conflict