Overview

• Police teams searched the Guwahati residences of festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and manager Siddhartha Sharma, breaking a locked door with a magistrate present and seizing documents and laptops.
• Musician Shekhar Jyoti Goswami, a longtime associate who was with Zubeen Garg in Singapore, was taken into custody for questioning, with officials yet to disclose specific allegations.
• Crowds gathered outside Sharma’s building threw stones at police vehicles, prompting a baton charge, and officers detained two people accused of provoking the unrest.
• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the state will recommend a CBI inquiry if the SIT’s work is found unsatisfactory and emphasized that all companions and organisers present in Singapore will be questioned.
• Authorities cite Singapore’s death certificate listing drowning and a second Assam post-mortem reporting no foul play, as the state bars Mahanta and associated groups from hosting government-supported events.