New Delhi: A group of unknown people set two mosques on fire in Tauru town of Haryana's Nuh district late on Wednesday (August 2).

Police told NDTV that the arsonists threw Molotov cocktails – a kind of glass bottle-based bomb – at the mosques while travelling on motorcycles.

They also said no one was injured and that the fires were doused by local fire brigades soon after the mosques were attacked.

Nuh district remains tense after communal violence first occurred there on Monday (July 31).

Hindus and Muslims in Nuh clashed with each during a Hindu religious procession passing through the district.

The violence has since spread to other parts of Haryana, including neighbouring Gurugram (formerly Gurgaon) district, where a mosque was also set on fire by a mob on Monday and its naib (deputy) imam stabbed to death.

The Haryana government has imposed a curfew in Nuh and extended its ban on mobile internet and some SMS facilities there until 11:59 pm on Saturday (August 5).

T.V.S.N. Prasad, the Haryana home department's additional chief secretary, wrote in an order dated August 2 that there was still potential for disruption to law and order on account of "misuse of internet services by way of spread of inflammatory material and false rumours" using mobile internet and SMS, NDTV reported.

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He also suspended these services in neighbouring Faridabad and Palwal districts, as well as in three sub-divisions of Gurugram district, until the same time on Saturday.

Rajasthan's government also took the step of extending a suspension of mobile internet and SMS in four sub-divisions of Bharatpur district, which is adjacent to Nuh, until the morning of Thursday (August 3), news agency PTI reported.

In Delhi, which is an hour-and-a-half away from Nuh, the Hindu nationalist organisation Vishva Hindu Parishad and its youth wing, the Bajrang Dal, held rallies to protest the communal violence, which has so far caused the deaths of six people.

These organisations carried out the religious procession in Nuh on Monday that became the epicentre of the violence.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a plea seeking its orders to stop the rallies, but ultimately refrained from doing so.

It instead asked governments in the National Capital Region to prevent instances of hate speech and violence, and police personnel to file suo motu (on their own initiative) FIRs in hate speech cases.

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