Zubeen Garg dying case: Festival organiser strikes SC for cover of his life, limb and liberty

Festival organiser Shyam Kanu Mahanta on Friday (October 3, 2025) moved the Supreme Court searching for safety for his “life, limb and private liberty” following the dying of Assamese singer Zubeen Garg in Singapore.

Mr. Mahanta mentioned he’s a “sufferer of a effectively calculated witch-hunt involving irresponsible media reportings, each print and digital, which search to create a false narrative with regard to the alleged involvement of the petitioner within the unhappy and unlucky demise of his very pricey private buddy, Mr. Zubeen Garg”.

“This is a traditional case during which the petitioner who himself is grieving because of the passing away of his private pricey buddy, has been made the goal of public hate and has not been allowed to even pay his respects on the final rites of the late singer,” the petition acknowledged, including that he has been disadvantaged of his proper to mourn the lack of his pricey buddy.

Mr. Mahanta mentioned he was subjected to “large-scale public hatred owing to a false narrative and termed the allegations in opposition to him “ludicrous to say the least”.

Mr. Mahanta has sought an NIA or a CBI probe into the dying and a good trial into case as a substitute of allegations turning into “embroiled in a media trial on mainstream media and social media”.

In his writ petition, Mr. Mahanta mentioned he was the occasion organiser of a pageant to be held on September 19-21, 2025 at Singapore and was “not even current on the place of incidence of the unlucky demise of the late singer”.

“The petitioner couldn’t even meet the deceased on September 19, 2025 i.e., the date of the incident, as he was busy in overseeing the preparations of the pageant and had met him solely on September 17, 2025,” the petition, filed by means of advocate Raj Kamal, submitted. The petition additionally referred to media stories, together with video footage out there on Youtube, which point out the singer was apparently swimming within the waters of the island along with his household and buddies.

The petition mentioned Mr. Mahanta himself got here to know concerning the singer’s dying at round 1 pm IST by way of a telephonic name from the singer’s supervisor Siddharth Sharma. Mr. Sharma, too, has been arrested within the case.

Atmosphere in Assam was “extraordinarily surcharged”

The petition mentioned the environment in Assam was “extraordinarily surcharged”, and your complete State equipment in addition to the followers of the late singer have been emotionally outraged.

Seeking to shift the case exterior the Assam, Mr. Mahanta mentioned there was each chance he wouldn’t get justice within the State.

“The gravity of the scenario and the extent of prejudice and bias in opposition to the petitioner turned much more obvious in gentle of the truth that the All Assam Lawyers’ Association has publicly urged its members of the authorized fraternity to not signify the accused individuals in Zubeen Garg’s demise case. This unprecedented name to boycott the protection has far-reaching implications. It undermines the very basis of the felony justice system,” the petition famous.

The State has registered a case of felony conspiracy, culpable murder not amounting to homicide, inflicting dying by negligence of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.

It has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to research into the dying of the late singer.

“The petitioner is confronted with a barrage of FIRs, greater than 54 in quantity, to the perfect of his data and knowledge of the Petitioner within the State of Assam and different neighboring States within the Northeast area,” the petition mentioned.

The Union authorities, State of Assam, Assam DGP, CBI, and the National Investigation Agency have been listed as respondents within the petition.