Overview

• The 53-year-old artist was cremated at Kamarkuchi with full state honours, and the government set aside land there for a memorial with another planned in Jorhat.
• Lakhs joined the final journey from Sarusajai Stadium, with the chief minister and Union ministers present and the prime minister’s condolences conveyed.
• Garg’s body was taken to Gauhati Medical College and Hospital for a second post-mortem conducted in the presence of AIIMS doctors, as ordered by the state.
• Singapore authorities have certified drowning as the cause, and their detailed autopsy report is still awaited, even as local reports have suggested a possible seizure preceding the incident.
• Fans have filed nearly 50 police complaints against some colleagues of the singer, calling for a high-level probe into the circumstances of his death.