The administration today decided not only to continue with the clampdown on Internet for seven days but also to extend it to local cable channels for "preventing commission of offences".

The communication clampdown was to prevent the dissemination of information by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to mobilise people, said sources.

The unprecedented move to enforce the embargo on Internet, including mobile data, for a period of 48 hours was taken on Sunday after The Telegraph had reported that the scattered Morcha leadership was successfully devising strategies through WhatsApp.