After remaining suspended for four days, Internet services across Jammu and Kashmir were restored on Monday as the suspension was criticized.

“Internet services have been restored throughout the state today morning,” a senior police officer told IANS in Jammu on Monday, adding: “Suspension of Internet services had become necessary to maintain peace and harmony in the state on the occasion of the Eid festival.” Following re-assertion of 1982 beef ban law by the state high court earlier this month, a controversy has been raging in religious and political circles of the state with Muslim clerics and separatist and mainstream politicians saying that the order amounted to interference in the religious rights of the majority Muslim community.