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A Singapore coroner’s enquiry study has fuelled the statement implicit Assamese taste icon Zubeen Garg’s mysterious decease successful poll-bound Assam.
In a judgement connected Wednesday (March 25, 2026), the land country’s State Coroner, Adam Nakhoda, said Garg drowned accidentally and recovered nary crushed to disagree with the Police Coast Guard’s findings astir the quality of his death. Earlier, the Singapore General Hospital cited drowning arsenic the origin of his decease connected September 19, 2025.
Reacting to the coroner’s report, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the Singapore court’s judgement and the charge-sheet filed by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Assam constabulary were similar. However, helium said successful November 2025 that the 52-year-old Garg had been murdered.
“Investigations by Singapore authorities and Assam constabulary revealed that helium had consumed liquor the erstwhile night, and 380ml of liquor was found. The lone different happening our study stated was that helium was made to portion intoxicant by Amritprabha arsenic portion of a conspiracy,” helium said.
Amritprabha Mahanta, Garg’s co-singer, was 1 of 7 radical arrested connected charges of driving him to death. The others see Shyamkanu Mahanta, the organiser of a festival wherever Garg was scheduled to sing, and Garg’s manager Siddharth Sharma.
The Chief Minister felt the Singapore court’s ruling would marque the SIT lawsuit stronger. “I person been saying from the outset that the Assam constabulary tin execute amended than their Singapore counterparts. This judgement proved that we did a bully job, and radical volition present recognize however good we worked,” helium said.
However, State Congress president and Jorhat MP Gaurav Gogoi said the Singapore ruling challenged the Chief Minister’s execution theory.
“The Indian authorities coordinated with its Singapore counterpart connected this matter, and the Assam authorities sent a constabulary squad to Singapore to investigate. The Chief Minister besides told the Assembly that Zubeen da was murdered. The Singapore verdict is simply a acquisition for those accused of sidesplitting him,” Mr Gogoi said.
Lurinjyoti Gogoi, the president of Congress state Assam Jatiya Parishad, wondered however investigations carried retired by the constabulary of 2 countries could output antithetic results. “The radical of Assam merit much clarity,” helium said.
