Overview
- Assam Police’s SIT submitted its chargesheet to the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Guwahati on December 12, moving the investigation into the judicial phase.
- The main chargesheet runs about 2,500 pages and totals roughly 12,000 pages with annexures, including digital records, bank documents and forensic reports.
- Murder charges under BNS Section 103 have been filed against Siddharth Sharma, Shyamkanu Mahanta, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta, with additional counts of conspiracy, breach of trust, extortion, cheating and destruction of evidence applied to some.
- Cousin Sandipan Garg is charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder (BNS 105), while PSOs Nandeswar Bora and Paresh Baishya face conspiracy and criminal breach of trust charges.
- The SIT cites evidence from two post-mortems, a Singapore toxicology report and CFSL viscera analysis after examining 300+ witnesses, as Singapore Police maintain preliminarily that no foul play was indicated and the court now reviews the case for trial; the Assam government says it will seek a fast-track court and a special public prosecutor.