Karbi Anglong, Dec. 28 -- The Assam government on Sunday lifted the ban on the mobile internet services, imposed after the violent protest in Karbi Anglong and West Karbi Anglong over the demands of eviction of settlers.

Following the violence in which at least 173 personnel of the Assam Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) sustained injuries, Assam government invoked Section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, with the Temporary Suspension of Telecom Services (Public Emergency or Public Safety) Rules, 2017, prohibiting Internet/Mobile Data Services of all Mobile Service Providers in the districts of Karbi Anglong and West Karbi Anglong, with immediate effect on December 23.

Additional Chief Secretary of the Home and P...