Overview

• Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and manager Siddharth Sharma must depose before the CID by October 6, warning of escalated action and confirming Mahanta’s bank accounts, PAN and credit cards have been frozen.
• Sarma added the state has sought a judicial commission led by a sitting Gauhati High Court judge and will consider handing the case to the CBI if the police probe falls short, with the Singapore report being pursued and the GMCH post-mortem reported as ready.
• The SIT widened its net with summons to roughly a dozen witnesses, including those on the yacht and members of the Assamese diaspora in Singapore, conducted searches, sealed residences, and questioned figures such as actress Nishita Goswami and bandmate Shekhar Jyoti Goswami.
• Manager Siddharth Sharma issued a statement denying financial exploitation claims, saying most of the roughly 38,000 recordings are owned by labels, later works were housed in Zubeen Garg Music LLP with Garg holding 60 percent, and royalties will flow to widow Garima Garg.
• Prominent artistes filed an FIR alleging negligence, abetment and financial misconduct against Mahanta, Sharma and others, as protests led to arrests in Guwahati and institutions announced tributes including Gauhati University’s renaming of its cultural centre and a planned statue.