Reliance asks government to help stop attacks against telecom infrastructure


FILE PHOTO: A woman checks her mobile phone as she walks past a mobile store of Reliance Industries’ Jio telecoms unit, in Mumbai, India, July 11, 2017. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade/File photo

(Reuters) – Indian oil-to-telecoms conglomerate Reliance Industries on Monday asked for intervention by government authorities to stop the vandalism of its telecom infrastructure by protesting farmers and sympathisers.

Protesters agitating against new agricultural laws have attacked hundreds of telecommunications masts of companies such as Reliance’s Jio telecom service that they believe have profited from the farm reforms at their expense.