Curfew relaxed for 5 hours in Saharanpur

Update: 2014-07-31 23:38 GMT
‘Keeping in view the peaceful situation, curfew has been relaxed for five hours on Wednesday. If the situation remains stable, we will relax curfew in the entire district from 10 am to 5 pm on Thursday,’ Saharanpur district magistrate Sandhya Tiwari said.

‘Today (Wednesday) curfew has been relaxed from 8.30 am till 1.30 pm in the new city. People are shopping for daily needs as normalcy was returning to the city,’ she said.

However, in the old town curfew will be relaxed from 2 pm to 7 pm, she said.

Tiwari said the situation in the district is fast approaching normalcy.

A total of 22 FIRs have been registered and 76 people have been arrested so far in connection
with the violence.

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