Dhaka, Oct. 26 -- Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury today said the number of mobile SIMs that can be registered under a single subscriber's National Identity Card (NID) will be reduced before the upcoming national elections."The current limit of 15 SIMs per NID will be reduced to 10 after this month, with further reductions planned before the election," he said.

He made the remarks while speaking to reporters after the 15th meeting of the Advisory Council Committee on the Law and Order at the Home Ministry. Explaining the cause of limiting the SIM against an NIN, the Home Adviser said that many crimes are committed using SIM cards registered under other people's names, making it difficult to trace the re...