Overview

• Garg’s wife, sister and uncle filed a complaint with Assam CID naming organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and manager Siddharth Sharma and asking that everyone present in Singapore be questioned.
• The SIT visited Garg’s Guwahati residence to record statements and continued summons, with actor Nishita Goswami and musician Shekhar Jyoti Goswami appearing for questioning.
• Assam requested the Union Home Ministry to invoke the India–Singapore Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty; look-out notices were issued, Mahanta’s bank accounts were frozen, and both men were directed to appear by October 6.
• CID and SIT raids on premises linked to Mahanta, Sharma and associates seized electronic devices and documents, and a separate probe into suspected financial irregularities tied to Mahanta was initiated.
• Forensic results are awaited as CFSL Delhi analyzes viscera after a second autopsy in Guwahati, while Singapore’s death certificate lists the cause as drowning.