Citizenship Amendment Act: Ghaziabad administration announces Internet shutdown for 24 hours

GHAZIABAD: After protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in Delhi, the

Ghaziabad administration

announced an

internet shutdown

for 24 hours starting 10pm on Thursday till Friday 10pm.

This will plunge lakhs of people, who use their smartphones for everything from building security to ordering food, into an internet outage not seen before in NCR. District magistrate

Ajay Shankar Pandey

said the decision was taken in the wake of intelligence reports that "

anti-social elements

" could create law-and-order problems, block the national highway and damage public property in the district. Police are on high alert, he added.

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