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Nine radical person been arrested truthful acold successful transportation with unit during the shifting of 5 accused successful Zubeen Garg’s decease lawsuit to a jailhouse successful Assam’s Baksa district, constabulary said connected Saturday (October 18, 2025).
Several others progressive successful the unit person been identified, and a hunt is underway to apprehension them, Baksa elder superintendent of constabulary (SSP) Ujjal Pratim Baruah said.
“We person arrested 9 radical truthful far. More person been identified. Some of the accused are absconding but we volition apprehend them soon. We person taken this probe precise seriously, and a squad is taking it forward. The media, section people, each are helping us,” the SSP said.
Violent protests had erupted adjacent the Baksa jailhouse connected Wednesday (October 15, 2025) erstwhile 5 accused successful Garg’s decease lawsuit were brought determination aft a tribunal successful Guwahati remanded them to judicial custody.
Mr. Baruah said that “true fans of Garg person thing to interest arsenic those who incited the unit successful the guise of being fans person been identified”.
Several people, including constabulary unit and media persons, were injured erstwhile the protestors hurled stones astatine vehicles carrying the 5 accused and torched a fig of different vehicles.
Police had to baton-charge and occurrence teardrop state shells to power the situation.
Internet and mobile information services were suspended successful the territory pursuing the unrest, but were restored connected Friday (October 17, 2025), arsenic the concern returned to normal.
Prohibitory orders nether Section 163 of BNSS stay successful unit successful Mushalpur town, wherever the jailhouse is located, and adjoining areas.
Security has been tightened successful and astir the jail, wherever the accused person been lodged pursuing the tribunal order.
Garg had died portion swimming successful the oversea successful Singapore connected September 19. He was determination to enactment successful the 4th North East India Festival (NEIF).
NEIF main organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, the singer's manager Siddhartha Sharma, his relative and constabulary serviceman Sandipan Garg and his idiosyncratic information officers Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya are lodged astatine Baksa jail.
Two others arrested successful the aforesaid lawsuit – Garg’s set members Shekharjyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta – were besides remanded to judicial custody by the Kamrup (Metro) main judicial magistrate connected Friday. The 2 person been taken to Haflong situation successful Dima Hasao district.
A 10-member peculiar probe squad (SIT) of CID of the Assam Police is probing the decease of the singer-composer.
