Overview

• The CID’s Special Investigation Team led by Special DGP M.P. Gupta issued notices to people connected to the Singapore outing to depose within 10 days and carried out a second day of searches at organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta’s home, after earlier searches at the residences of manager Siddhartha Sharma and musician Shekhar Jyoti Goswami.
• A formal FIR lodged at the CID Police Station by leading artistes accuses Mahanta, Sharma, Goswami and others of negligence and abetment, cites alleged financial irregularities, and invokes extraterritorial provisions under CrPC Section 188 and BNSS Section 208.
• Candlelight marches called by AASU drew large turnouts across Assam with demands for immediate arrests and a probe into alleged financial misappropriation, while AGP pressed for a top‑tier investigation and sought a posthumous highest civilian honour for Garg.
• Police detained musician Ajay Phukan and activist Victor Das after clashes outside Siddhartha Sharma’s residence where a SIT vehicle was pelted with stones; both were booked for assaulting on‑duty officers and inciting violence, and the artiste community has petitioned for Phukan’s release pending inquiry.
• Gauhati University will rename its Centre for Performing Arts and Culture after Garg, install a statue, publish a coffee‑table book and add a dedicated song category, with Tezpur University announcing a posthumous honorary doctorate, a statue and a scholarship.