Overview

• The Singapore Police Force provided the Indian High Commission with Garg’s autopsy report and preliminary findings, after earlier listing drowning as the cause of death.
• Assam CID arrested bandmate Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and co-singer Amritprava Mahanta, with a Guwahati court sending both to 14 days’ police custody, taking total detentions to four.
• Manager Siddharth Sharma and festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta were arrested earlier and are also in 14-day custody, with Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for murder added to parts of the FIR.
• The Assam government announced a judicial commission led by Gauhati High Court’s Justice Soumitra Saikia to examine the circumstances of the singer’s death.
• Investigators await viscera analysis from the Central Forensic Laboratory and say a team is ready to travel to Singapore under MLAT procedures, while organiser Mahanta has petitioned the Supreme Court for a central agency probe.