Day curfew lifted in Punjab, calm returns in Haryana

Chandigarh, May 28 (PTI) Day curfew was Thursday
lifted in violence-hit regions in India's northern state of
Punjab allowing life to return to normal in the five towns
where disturbances broke out following killing of a Sikh sect
leader in Vienna.

The situation in neighbouring northern state Haryana,
parts of which were also affected by the violence, remained
calm, officials said here.

Curfew, clamped on Monday, was relaxed during the day
time in worst-hit Jalandhar, the hub of Dera Sachkhand Ballan,
Hoshiarpur, Malout, Phagwara and five police station areas in
Ludhiana and no untoward incident was reported, they said.

"Life is returning to normal," they said.
Most of the train and bus services have been restored
in the troubled regions, they said.

They, however, said, curfew will remain in force in
the five towns during the night as a precautionary measure.

People were back to their daily routine and shops and
business establishments functioned normally in Ambala,
Jagadhri and Naraingarh in Haryana.

However, educational institutions remained close in
trouble-hit areas.

The paramilitary forces have returned to their
barracks and only the state police remained deployed in
sensitive points, Jalandhar Deputy Commissioner A S Pannu
said.

The body of Sant Ramanand, who was killed in the
Vienna incident, will be flown back to Amritsar in a couple of
days from where it would be airlifted to the headquarters of
Dera Sachkhand in Ballan village in Jalandhar, he said. PTI VJ
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