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VADODARA: Normal life was restored in riot-hit Vadodara with the curfew-bound walled city area recording no incident during the last 24 hours.
Being encouraged by the fast improving law and order situation, the authorities on Monday relaxed curfew for 9 hours from 8 am to 5 pm simultaneously in all six curfew-bound areas of Panigate, City, Karelibaug, Wadi, Raopura and Navapura.
The authorities are likely to take a decision on the complete pullout of the army in the evening. The army was deployed on May 3 after demolition of a shrine at Champaner Gate in the sensitive Fatehpura area by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation led to widespread violence in which six people were killed and over 60 injured.
The police on Sunday arrested five persons, including the son of an assistant sub-inspector, after a patrol team recovered sharp-edged weapons and hockey sticks from a Tata Sumo they were traveling in.