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Five people, who person been arrested successful transportation with the death of vocalist Zubeen Garg successful Singapore past month, person been sent to judicial custody connected Wednesday (October 15, 2025) aft their constabulary remand ended.
North East India Festival (NEIF) main organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, Zubeen's manager Siddhartha Sharma, his relative and constabulary serviceman Sandipan Garg and his idiosyncratic information officers (PSOs) Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya were remanded to judicial custody by the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate.
The court, expressing interest for their safety, besides ruled that they should beryllium sent to a jailhouse wherever determination were less prisoners.
“Accordingly, the authorities decided to displacement each 5 accused to Baksa Jail astatine Mussalpur, which was inaugurated 2 months ago, and determination are inactive nary prisoners,” an authoritative said.
Mahanta and Sharma were arrested connected October 1, 2025 successful Delhi successful transportation with the singer’s decease successful Singapore past period and were booked nether assorted Sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, transgression conspiracy and causing decease by negligence, with execution charges added later. The duo were fixed constabulary custody for 14 days, which ended connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025).
Zubeen Garg's relative and Assam Police DSP Sandipan Garg was arrested connected October 8 and remanded to 7 days of constabulary custody. Serving arsenic the in-charge of the co-district superintendent of constabulary of Boko-Chaygaon successful Kamrup district, Sandipan was suspended from bureau connected the time of his arrest.
The constabulary serviceman had accompanied the vocalist to Singapore and was contiguous connected the yacht during Zubeen's past moments. The singer's 2 PSOs were arrested connected October 10 and were remanded to five-day constabulary custody.
Zubeen Garg’s idiosyncratic information officers arrested successful singer’s decease case
Two others — Zubeen's set members Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and vocalist Amritprava Mahanta — were arrested connected October 3 and remanded to 14-day constabulary custody.
The CID has besides initiated a abstracted probe against Mahanta for alleged organised fiscal crimes and "acquiring immense amounts of 'benami' properties by wealth laundering."
The Assam Government had constituted a 10-member SIT to analyse the singer's decease successful Singapore owing to drowning successful the oversea connected September 19.
More than 60 FIRs were filed crossed the State against Mahanta, Sharma and respective others, pursuing which the Chief Minister had directed the DGP to transportation each the FIRs to the CID and to registry a consolidated lawsuit for a thorough investigation.
