Under tight security arrangements, the Friday prayers of a community passed off peacefully at all the 65 mosques in the city. No untoward incident was reported from anywhere at the mosques spread across the city.
The District administration announced two hours of extension in relaxation of prohibitory orders in Mango which was the epicentre of violence, which began on Monday night and continued on Tuesday.
Though, the District administration had on Thursday evening announced that on Friday the prohibitory orders will be relaxed between 9 am and 4pm at Ulidih, Azadnagar, MGM and Mango police stations (falling under Mango area), but it was extended till 6 pm after an announcement made by the district Administration at 2 pm on Friday.
"After studying the situation and taking feedback from all the four police stations and also from other parts of the city, we decided to extend relaxation of prohibitory orders for two hours. We are also assessing situation in rest of the city and will take a decision on relaxation of prohibitory orders timing soon. Adequate security personnel were deployed at all religious places on Friday," said East Singhbhum Deputy Commissioner Amitabh Kaushal.
The district administration had relaxed the prohibitory order in rest of the city announced from 6 am to 8 pm since Thursday evening.
East Singhbhum district superintendent of education, Indu Bhusan Singh issued a directive that all schools/ colleges (state-owned) can open from Saturday normally.
"We are really happy to note that the situation has improved in the city. We have issued a directive to open schools from Saturday. All state-owned schools will have to reopen from Saturday while the private cradles management will take a decision on opening of schools independently," said the district superintendent of education.
Incidentally, most of the English medium schools normally do not have classes on Saturday and Sunday and are expected to start classes from Monday. Most of the Government offices, including provident fund regional office, State drinking water and sanitation department, State Electricity board billing office at Mango remained operational.
Public transportation also ran normally on roads in Mango. Auto-rickshaws and private town buses plied normally elsewhere in city.
The DC said that movement of commercial carriers and heavy vehicles will not be affected due to the prohibitory orders in city and Mango. He said that they will further relax the prohibitory orders after studying the situation.
Notably, the violence took place between the two communities in Mango on Monday night when three bike-borne youths shot in the air at Mango's Gandhi Maidan where a fair, part of Id celebrations, was on, allegedly tried to molest two girls near the Payal Cinema and then flashed firearms before residents of nearby Daiguttu locality.