New Delhi, July 26 -- By the time mobile-internet services in parts of central Delhi around Jantar Mantar were restored on Saturday, it had been a five-day suspension, the longest recorded anywhere in the national Capital by a wide margin. The restoration came shortly after Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced his resignation on X and the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) called off its protest, stating that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government had agreed to its demands. Earlier in the day, authorities issued a seventh order extending the suspension of mobile-internet services around Jantar Mantar until midnight, taking the total duration of repeated disruptions in the area to five days. Prior to this episode, the longest such stint of localised internet blackouts lasted less than a day, occurring during last during the 2021 farmers' protest. The Capital has never recorded a citywide internet restriction. Services were restored well before the scheduled midnight deadline. However, telecom service providers (TSPs) had not received any formal order revoking the suspension until late Saturday evening, said people aware of the matter. Over the five-day period, July 21 was the only day on which the government did not issue a suspension order. The shutdown began on July 20, when the government directed TSPs to suspend mobile-internet services from 10am to 6pm in parts of central Delhi around Jantar Mantar. The directives required telecom companies to suspend mobile-internet services within a 1.5km radius of the protest site. Digital rights organisation SFLC.in challenged the internet shutdown orders before the Delhi high court, arguing that the suspension was unlawful....