Festival organiser, Zubeen Gargs supervisor arrested in Delhi

North East India Festival (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and Zubeen Garg’s supervisor Siddhartha Sharma have been arrested in reference to the singer’s dying in Singapore, police stated on Wednesday (October 1, 2025).

Mahanta was arrested on his arrival on the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi from Singapore whereas Sharma was arrested from an residence in Gurugram.

The duo was dropped at Guwahati early on Wednesday (October 1, 2025) morning, a senior police official instructed PTI.

The Assam authorities had constituted a 10-member Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by Special DGP M. P. Gupta, to analyze the singer’s dying in Singapore because of drowning within the sea on September 19.

The SIT issued notices to a number of individuals, together with Mahanta, Sharma and members of Singapore Assam Association and people who had gone to Singapore for the competition to look earlier than it and document their statements.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had stated earlier {that a} ‘lookout discover’ by means of the Interpol had been issued in opposition to Mahanta and Sharma, asking them to look earlier than the CID by October 6.