With normalcy returning to violence—hit Dimapur town in Nagaland, the authorities on Thursday relaxed for 15 hours, the prohibitory orders imposed in the wake of lynching of a rape accused on March 5.
The prohibitory orders under section 144 crpc were lifted from 6 a.m.
Although no fresh arrest was made, Internet and SMS/MMS services continued to be blocked, officials said in Kohima.
Meanwhile, a total of 47 people have so far been arrested for their alleged involvement in the lynching.
Shops, business establishments, schools, colleges and government offices were open and vehicles plied on the roads.
A mob that had broken into the Dimapur Central Jail, dragged out rape accused Syed Farid Khan, stripped him naked and beat him to death.
Khan, who hailed Karimganj district of Assam, was arrested on the charge of raping a woman in Dimapur on February 24 and remanded to judicial custody the next day.
