Mobile internet services were restored in Nuh on Monday as police stepped up security ahead of Independence Day in the Haryana district where communal clashes broke out two weeks ago, police said.

The government, following the violence on July 31, fully suspended mobile internet services until August 8 and then extended until August 13. Six people died in the clashes that erupted in Nuh and spread to adjoining areas. Markets and schools are now open in the violence-affected areas.