Overview

• Assam’s chief minister said the Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax Department will examine festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta’s accounts, with CID also registering a separate case on alleged financial irregularities.
• Only one Singapore-based witness, Rupkamal Kalita, has confirmed he will appear before the SIT on October 7, while seven others have not responded as Assam pursues evidence sharing through the India–Singapore MLAT.
• Four people are under arrest with murder charges added — organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, manager Siddharth Sharma, musician Shekharjyoti Goswami and singer Amritprava Mahanta — and a one-member judicial commission is overseeing the probe.
• The government will not release post-mortem reports publicly, though they can be reviewed at the CID office with approval, and viscera tests at CFSL Delhi are expected around October 10–11 to assess any poisoning.
• The SIT faces criticism for inserting unverified claims from an accused into arrest documents, even as local reports cite new financial leads and recovered phone data now under analysis.