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The curfew, clamped in the town on Wednesday following large-scale violence and police firing after the recovery of the mutilated body of an abducted child, was relaxed from 0900 to 1500 hours (IST), sources said.
A fact-finding team of the National Democratic Alliance, led by opposition leader in the Bihar assembly S K Modi visited the north Bihar town to assess the situation.
Modi called for the constitution of an all-party House committee to probe the circumstances leading to the violence and imposition of curfew in the town.
Eight persons lost their lives in a series of violent incidents on Wednesday following the abduction and killing of the child of a local bank official on Tuesday.
The state government has announced a judicial inquiry into the incidents.
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