The Human Rights Watch on Friday said so far in 2017, there have been as many as 20 internet shutdowns in India, and urged the authorities not to resort to arbitrary shutdown of internet and telecommunications network in order to prevent social unrest. “The lack of transparency and failure to explain these shutdowns only further the perception that they are meant to suppress non-violent reporting and criticism of the government,” HRW South Asia Director Meenakshi Ganguly said.