The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Punjab government and Centre on a plea filed by Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd

New Delhi: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Punjab government and the Centre on a plea filed by Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, seeking action against "miscreants" damaging its telecom infrastructure and forcibly closing its stores in the state.

During the ongoing agitation by farmers against three new farm laws enacted by the Centre, over 1500 mobile towers in Punjab have been damaged.

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Reliance Jio, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd, on Monday, submitted in its plea that "vested" interests are engaged in spreading "false rumours" against it and that the petitioner, its parent company and its affiliates had no plans to enter corporate or contract farming.

In the civil writ petition, Reliance Jio has also sought appropriate directions to respondents for investigation into the “well-orchestrated and sustained disinformation campaign” being carried out by vested interests and miscreants against it.

In the petition, the company has stated that in the past few weeks, it’s over 1,500 telecom towers were damaged or rendered inoperative by miscreants crippling its mobile network in Punjab.

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A number of its centres and stores were also forcibly closed by miscreants by using “illegal force and intimidation,” it submitted.

The petitioner submitted that its subscribers were being forced to port to other networks, while its employees were being subjected to grave threat to life and forcibly prevented from serving subscribers in the state.