India, Jan. 20 -- The Assam government on Tuesday imposed prohibitory orders, suspended mobile internet and deployed Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel in Kokrajhar after tension erupted in the region over the mob lynching of a person on January 19, police said on Tuesday.

The prohibitory orders issued under Section 163 of India's new Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita banned assembly of more than four people in public places and prohibited demonstrations or protests in the district.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is in Davos for the World Economic Forum, said in a post on X that mobile internet was suspended in Kokrajhar and Chirang districts, and that he was in touch with top state officials.

An Assam government order ...