Overview

• Two senior PWD officials, Sub-Divisional Officer Aminul Islam and Executive Engineer Dinesh Medhi, remain in judicial custody under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for alleged abetment of Joshita Das’s suicide.
• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s administration has halted all payments on the Bongaigaon mini-stadium until an inspection team verifies completed work.
• State Congress-led protests have spread to district centers such as Guwahati, Barak Valley, Bongaigaon, demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry into alleged PWD corruption and harassment.
• Leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia has formally petitioned Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya to initiate a CBI probe, file anti-corruption charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act against implicated officials.
• Civil society groups and political parties are urging the state government to strengthen workplace harassment policies, expand mental-health support for women in public departments.