Rocked by three days of violence after a controversial Facebook post by an eleventh standard student, Baduria was limping back to normal on Thursday as most of the shops and business establishments started functioning under the shadow of security patrols.

Vehicles, including private buses, also started plying. The Internet ban, however, continued. Schools also did not open and many students who went to school assuming they had opened, had to return home.

Residents explained the sudden change in mood to that fact that the violence was perpetrated mostly by outsiders.