Anti-CAA protests: Curfew lifted in Guwahati, 10 people arrested in connection with Jamia violence

The curfew imposed in Assam's Guwahati on last Wednesday in the wake of protests against the citizenship law has been lifted today.

Meanwhile, in Delhi, 10 people with criminal backgrounds have been arrested, in connection with Jamia Millia Islamia incident. No student has been arrested.

As per reports, Shops and business establishments were open in Guwahati, and buses, cars, and two-wheelers were plying.

The decision to lift the curfew in Guwahati was taken at a law and order review meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday.

"It has been decided to lift the curfew completely in Guwahati from 6 am tomorrow," an official statement had said.

However, the statement did not mention anything about the resumption of mobile internet services.

In Dibrugarh, the curfew has been relaxed for 14 hours from 6 am on Tuesday, they said.

On the other hand, protests have been reported from some parts of West Bengal for the fifth day on Tuesday against the amended Citizenship Act. Agitators raised slogans against the new Citizenship Act at Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district.

The police have stepped up vigil across the state and as many as 354 protesters were arrested for violence.

Several trains to north Bengal were either canceled or delayed, officials said.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to lead a rally from Jadavpur 8B bus stand to Bhawanipore in south Kolkata area against the citizenship law.

CM Banerjee, who led a mega rally from Red Road to Jorasanko Thakur Bari, the ancestral house of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in north Kolkata on Monday, had urged the agitators to not indulge in vandalism and arson.

The chief minister had declared on Monday that the Amended Citizenship Act and the National Register of Citizenship could be enforced in the state only over her "dead body".

Road and rail blockades were witnessed in the state on Monday as violent protests over the contentious Citizenship Act refused to die down, amid a warning by state authorities and appeal from the chief minister.

Anti-citizenship law protests snowballed into a major flashpoint in West Bengal on Monday with highways and railway lines blocked and incidents of arson and loot reported from many places.

(With PTI Inputs)

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