Srinagar: All mobile phone services, except BSNL post-paid connections, were suspended across the Kashmir Valley on Monday, a day ahead of Eid, even as the shutdown continued for the 66th day.
Mobile Internet facilities on cell phones and other appliances have been suspended since July following the death of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani.
Sources also said authorities could suspend broadband Internet facility on fixed landlines on Tuesday to check spread of rumours.
Separatists have appealed to locals to celebrate Eid on Tuesday with austerity as a mark of respect for the victims of the ongoing unrest, and called for march to the office of United Nations Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) in Sonwar area of Srinagar.
Authorities have decided to impose curfew and restrictions to prevent the march.
"We have intelligence inputs that separatists are planning large scale violence on Eid in Srinagar and elsewhere. Adequate arrangements have been made to scuttle the separatist designs," said a senior intelligence officer.
Life in the valley remained paralyzed for the 66th consecutive day in Kashmir, where restrictions have been imposed on the movement and assembly of people in some areas on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha.
The deadly violence has left 76 people, including two police personnel, dead and more than 10,000 others injured.
The separatists have extended the shutdown programme till September 16.
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