Lucknow: With normalcy returning to the violence-ravaged Muzaffarnagar town in Uttar Pradesh, the district administration Monday lifted curfew completely, officials said.
A home department official told IANS that following a ground report suggesting calm and no untoward incidents, the state government gave a go ahead to lift the curfew, which was clamped after violence erupted Sep 7.
Night patrolling by armed columns and presence of police force at sensitive points would however continue, officials said.
"The security level has been scaled down but we will be on vigil and the intelligence set up in the city and rural areas has been shored up to prevent any resurfacing of violence," said a police official.
No decision however has been taken to withdraw the army from the district. A decision to do so, officials said would be taken later at the highest level of the government.
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