“Arrest us once, we will come out twice. Arrest us twice, we will come over and over again,” roared chief adviser to All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) Samujjal Bhattacharjya as he was taken into police custody on Monday. The AASU leader was heading the three-day satyagraha against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act at the city’s Latasil playground beginning on Monday.

“CAA batil korok nohole amak greptar korok (Either scrap CAA or arrest us)” echoed on city streets as the student group continued its non-stop protest against the act for the sixth day. Normalcy is sneaking into the state with night curfew still on. Train and flight services continued to suffer and mobile Internet service remained snapped since Wednesday. The ban has been extended till Tuesday.

Along with Bhattacharjya, AASU general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi and hundreds of others who joined the satyagraha were also taken into police custody and kept on the Dighali Pukhuri park campus which was declared a “makeshift jail” temporarily.

Thousands joined the protest by AASU and took out a rally from Latasil playground to Kamrup (metro) district headquarters. Popular actor Prastuti Parashar also participated, along with several state government workers.

Lurinjyoti said: “The government is using force to contain the movement, but the people of Assam are not going to stop. We will continue our democratic movement against CAA.” The AASU activists took out a rally in batches of 100 before getting detained. After being detained for around an hour, they were released. Several members of the Northeast Marwari Federation, too, joined the rally.

Finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said police had registered 136 cases during the ongoing anti-CAA protest across the state.

“At least 190 persons have been arrested and the number may rise. With the help of electronic and human intelligence, the miscreants involved in vandalism were being identified,” Sarma said.

The minister said as per the state government’s request, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had taken over a case against KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi registered with Chandmari police.

Sources added the NIA had received substantial material against the peasant leader to register a case against him under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act .

“The arrest of the KMSS leader was undemocratic and we strongly demand his unconditional release,” said Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) members who began a 36-hour fast across the state from Monday.

In Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district, four shops were set ablaze by goons at Hijuguri on Monday. According to reports, the shops were burnt by criminals at midnight. The incident took place when curfew was in force in the district. Curfew was relaxed in Tinsukia from 5am to 4pm. Several AASU members and people from all walks of life came out in protest against the CAA in the district.

A huge gathering was witnessed at the satyagraha programme at Naren Sarma Memorial Field, Dergaon, in Golaghat district on Monday. Similar protests were also held at Merapani, near the Assam-Nagaland border. Several local leaders of the AGP along with common people and workers also took part in the satyagraha. Many artistes, including Aman Ahmed and Rajen Mahanta, joined the protest.

In Jorhat, deputy commissioner Roshni Aparanji Korati said: “Night curfew will be in place from 10pm to 6am. Essential commodities, fuel and LPG will be available in the district from Tuesday.” AJYCP activists, along with citizens in the district also held a hunger strike in front of the DC’s office.

In Barak Valley, the situation was normal with no protests and shops and educational institutes remained open.

The Assam State Jamiat Ulama (ASJU) moved the Supreme Court against the CAA. Senior advocate A.S. Tapadar said: “The petitioners submitted that the act violates principles of equality and equal treatment, damages and destroys the Constitution’s basic feature of secularism and should be struck down as unconstitutional.”

At least 13 petitions including that of the North East Students’ Organisation (Neso) against the CAA have been filed before the Supreme Court. The apex court is likely to take up the petitions on Wednesday.

At least four separate petitions have been filed in Gauhati High Court, seeking the court’s intervention against suspension of mobile Internet services in the state. Banashri Gogoi, one of the petitioners, said: “It is against the fundamental rights of the citizens and the government is trying to gag people’s voice by banning mobile Internet.”

The Guwahati Lawyers’ Association president, Biraj Choudhury, demanded a judicial probe into the deaths of the four persons in police firing. The All Assam Lawyers’ Association also announced to take out a protest march to Raj Bhavan against CAA too on Friday.