PIL to fix call drops and faulty telecom signals rejected by HC

The Delhi High Court has refused to accept a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) to probe the reasons behind the alleged issue of bad quality signals and call drops in Delhi.

The plea was dismissed by the bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao and they have asked the petitioner, a lawyer, to approach the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) with his grievance.

When the central government’s standing counsel Anurag Ahluwalia, appearing for the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) opposed maintainability of the plea, the court said, “go to TRAI”.

The petition which was issued by advocate Shadab Husain Khan challenged that the residents of the national capital are facing the problems of poor network and call drops for more than a year. The petition also appealed to the court hat heavy fines be imposed on telecom service providers for allegedly ignoring the issue.

Khan also sought that the cancellation of the license of telecom companies who are unable to resolve this issue.