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North East India Festival (NEIF) main organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and Zubeen Garg’s manager Siddhartha Sharma person been arrested successful transportation with the singer’s decease successful Singapore, constabulary said connected Wednesday (October 1, 2025).
Mahanta was arrested connected his accomplishment astatine the Indira Gandhi International Airport successful New Delhi from Singapore portion Sharma was arrested from an flat successful Gurugram.
The duo was brought to Guwahati aboriginal connected Wednesday (October 1, 2025) morning, a elder constabulary authoritative told PTI.
The Assam authorities had constituted a 10-member Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by Special DGP M. P. Gupta, to analyse the singer’s decease successful Singapore owed to drowning successful the oversea connected September 19.
The SIT issued notices to respective people, including Mahanta, Sharma and members of Singapore Assam Association and those who had gone to Singapore for the festival to look earlier it and grounds their statements.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had said earlier that a ‘lookout notice’ done the Interpol had been issued against Mahanta and Sharma, asking them to look earlier the CID by October 6.
