Amid reports of ‘cyber slavery’, telecom ministry to disconnect 2.17 crore mobile connections

The Union Ministry of Telecommunications has informed the Centre’s high-level inter-ministerial panel it will disconnect around 2.17 crore mobile connections, that are either taken on forged documents or misused in cybercrime, and also block 2.26 lakh mobile handsets.

Earlier this month, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is learnt to have shared the data at a meeting held by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) with the officials of Bureau of Immigration, Financial Intelligence Unit, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity),