Overview

• Shyamkanu Mahanta was detained at Delhi airport after flying in from Singapore and Siddhartha Sharma was arrested in Gurugram before both were flown to Guwahati.
• Kamrup’s Chief Judicial Magistrate remanded the pair to 14 days of police custody after a production at the judge’s residence due to Durga Puja court closures.
• They have been booked under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita on charges including culpable homicide not amounting to murder, criminal conspiracy and causing death by negligence.
• Investigators seized multiple phones, including Garg’s handset, and are pursuing Singapore records through the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty after earlier Interpol lookout notices.
• Assam CID has consolidated over 50 FIRs, frozen Mahanta’s bank accounts for a separate financial probe, and the family has welcomed the arrests while seeking full transparency.