Singer Zubeen Garg died in Singapore whereas swimming, not throughout scuba diving: report

Singer-musician Zubeen Garg died because of drowning whereas swimming off a Singapore island and never whereas scuba diving as reported earlier, media experiences stated Thursday (October 2, 2025).

Assam-based Garg, who was in Singapore for the sixtieth yr of India-Singapore Diplomatic Relations and to have a good time India ASEAN Year of Tourism, North East India Festival, died on September 19.

The Singapore Police Force (SPF) stated they’ve prolonged a duplicate of the post-mortem report, together with its preliminary findings on Garg’s demise, to the High Commission of India, upon its request, The Straits Times newspaper reported.

The Indian High Commission says it has acquired the report. According to a supply, the report says that Garg died because of drowning.

The SPF had earlier dominated out foul play within the demise of the 52-year-old singer.

“In the case of Zubeen Garg, a coroner’s inquiry may presumably make clear the sequence of occasions main as much as his drowning,” the Singapore broadsheet quoted Ng Kai Ling, affiliate director at LIMN Law Corporation right here, as saying.

According to the Singapore day by day, Mr. Ng additionally stated that there isn’t any statutory definition for the time period “foul play”, however SPF’s preliminary assertion may very well be understood to imply that they don’t suspect that Garg was murdered or died because of some prison violence.

On September 19, Garg was at St. John’s Island, off Singapore, from the place he was pulled out of the water unconscious and rushed to Singapore General Hospital. But died that very same day.

According to earlier media experiences, the enduring singer was with greater than a dozen folks on an unnamed yacht on September 19 when tragedy struck.

A video posted on X on September 20 confirmed him leaping into the water for a swim whereas carrying a life vest.

But in accordance with media experiences, an individual who posted the video, which has since garnered over 6,00,000 views, stated Garg took off his life jacket minutes later and jumped into the water once more.

The SPF had suggested members of the general public in Singapore to not share any movies or photos associated to Garg’s demise.

According to numerous media experiences, Garg’s demise certificates, issued by a Singapore hospital, lists the reason for demise as drowning.

Meanwhile, Garg’s supervisor Siddhartha Sharma and competition chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta have been arrested from Delhi on Wednesday in reference to the singer’s demise, the Assam Police stated. They have been taken to Guwahati, the place the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate remanded them to 14-day police custody.

The duo was booked below numerous sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for culpable murder not amounting to homicide, prison conspiracy and inflicting demise by negligence, a senior police officer stated.

Meanwhile, Zubeen’s spouse Garima Saikia Garg, who’s in Jorhat for the thirteenth day rituals of ‘Mangolik Karya’ of the deceased singer, instructed reporters that she was happy that the duo had been delivered to Assam as “we’re all ready to know what occurred to him in his final moments.”

Ms. Garima stated she has full religion within the investigating crew and hoped that they might quickly know what precisely occurred in Singapore.

The Assam authorities had constituted a 10-member SIT to research the singer’s demise in Singapore.