Moradabad curfew to be relaxed for 16 hours

Lucknow, Aug 16 (IANS) With normalcy returning fast to the trouble-torn areas in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad city days after a communal clash left 13 people injured, the authorities Tuesday decided to relax the curfew clamped in parts of the city for 16 hours, an official said.

‘During a meeting of police and district authorities, it has been decided that curfew would now be relaxed from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.,’ Superintendent of Police (City) Piyush Srivastava told reporters in Moradabad, some 250 km from Lucknow.

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