Overview

• Assam CID has arrested four people linked to the Singapore outing — organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, manager Siddharth Sharma, bandmate Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and singer Amritprava Mahanta — with the first two now facing a murder section added to the FIR; all four are in 14-day custody.
• The Singapore Police Force has given Indian authorities a copy of the autopsy report and preliminary findings, after earlier issuing a death certificate citing drowning, and it says its investigation continues while urging the public not to share incident footage.
• A second post-mortem was conducted in Guwahati and viscera have been sent to the Central Forensic Laboratory in Delhi, with final reports awaited from both the CFSL and Gauhati Medical College.
• India has invoked the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with Singapore, and the Assam SIT says a team will travel to collect evidence once approvals are granted, with notices issued to potential witnesses including members of the Assam Association Singapore.
• The Assam government has set up a judicial commission headed by Gauhati High Court Justice Soumitra Saikia, and organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta has petitioned the Supreme Court seeking transfer of the probe to a central agency as remand papers record a bandmate’s unproven claim of poisoning.