Overview
- Multiple accused, including band member Amritprava Mahanta, cousin Sandipan Garg and PSOs Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya, filed bail petitions, with the prosecutor set to submit objections on the next date.
- Defense teams said only partial records, including an incomplete pen drive, were supplied and sought time to review a 2,500-page charge sheet and more than 12,000 pages of evidence.
- Key accused engaged senior and out-of-state counsel while others used legal aid, and all seven appeared virtually as police cited law-and-order concerns.
- The court objected to uncertified circulation of the charge sheet on social media and ordered a separate inquiry to trace how the documents were accessed.
- Zubeen Garg’s family and bar leaders urged the state to form a multi-member special prosecution team, warning that examining roughly 396 witnesses could stretch the trial without added resources.