The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued an order to re-verify the SIM of subscribers holding more than nine connections across India, and six connections in the case of Jammu and Kashmir, North East and Assam. In the case of non-verification, DoT has asked the concerned operators to disconnect the respective SIMs.
The subscribers will be given the option to choose the connection they want to retain and deactivate the rest of the connections.
With this order, DoT aims to check incidence of financial crimes, pesky calls, automated calls and fraudulent activities.
To this end, DoT has asked telecom operators to remove all the flagged mobile connections from the database that are not in use as per the rule. Also, in case no subscriber turns up for re-verification, the flagged number will be deactivated within 60 days to be counted from December 7, 2021.
However, if the number has been flagged by any law enforcement agencies or financial institution or identified as a pesky caller then the outgoing facilities will be suspended within 5 days, incoming within 10 days and complete disconnection within 15 days in case no one turns up for verification.
