Lynch: prohibitory orders relaxed, Net service still blocked

As the situation in Dimapur town has been normal, the authorities today relaxed for two more hours the prohibitory orders imposed in the wake of lynching of a rape accused on March 5.
The prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC was lifted from 6 AM to 6 PM, said DIG (Range, Nagaland Armed Police) Liremo Lotha, who is officiating as Dimapur SP following suspension of the SP after the lynching incident.
The relaxation of prohibitory orders had been from 6 AM till 4 PM yesterday.
The prohibitory orders would be further relaxed tomorrow -- from 6 AM to 9 PM, Lotha said.

However, Internet and SMS services continued to be blocked as it has been extended for another 24 hours.
Meanwhile, the police arrested one more person in connection with the lynching taking the total number of arrest to 48.

The police also came out with photographs of 12 more suspects, Lotha said adding the photos were collected from clippings of the lynching obtained form various sources.
A mob that had broken into Dimapur Central Jail, dragged out rape accused Syed Farid Khan, stripped him naked and lynched him on March 5.
Khan, who hailed Karimganj district of Assam, was arrested on the charge of raping a woman in Dimapur on February 24 and remanded to judicial custody the next day.