Police asserted that the arrests were based on substantial evidence, witness accounts, and data collected from the crime scene.
Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal are the founding members of Pinjra Tod group (Break the cage), a movement for women's rights especially the college students, which began against the disciplinary curfew timings for the hostelers.
Asif's arrest comes after Delhi Police arrested 27-year-old Jamia Scholar Safoora Zargar last month, who is now in the second trimester of her pregnancy.
The Chief Justice asked the UP government if it was not encroaching on personal space and liberty of citizens and expressed hope that the administration will take corrective measures before the hearing begins.
A bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and IS Mehta directed the authorities to preserve the DNA samples of all the bodies and not dispose of any unidentified body till the next date of hearing.
Recently, Afsara Anika Meem, a first-year Bangladeshi undergraduate student in the Fine Arts department of the Visva-Bharati University too was served an FRRO notice for reportedly engaging in "anti-government" activities after she posted photographs of an anti-CAA demonstration, held on the campus, on social media.
Officials said that authorities are mulling imposing a night curfew in Shillong from 10 pm in view of the prevailing situation.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will meet Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Lieutenant Governor and leaders of political parties today in the afternoon.
In view of the violence, the DMRC has also terminated its services at Jaffrabad, Maujpur-Babrpur, Gokulpuri, Johri Enclave, and Shiv Vihar metro stations.
The top court chose senior advocates Sanjay Hegde and Sadhna Ramchandran and former bureaucrat Wajahat Habibullah to talk to the Citizenship Amendment Act protesters blocking the 13A road that is a crucial link between Delhi and Noida, and find an alternative protest location.
