A protest erupts exterior Baksa District Jail after 5 accused in late singer Zubeen Garg’s loss of life case are dropped at the jail after CJM despatched them to judicial custody, in Baksa on Wednesday on October 15, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI
Several others concerned within the violence have been recognized, and a search is underway to arrest them, Baksa senior superintendent of police (SSP) Ujjal Pratim Baruah stated.
“We have arrested 9 individuals up to now. More have been recognized. Some of the accused are absconding however we are going to apprehend them quickly. We have taken this investigation very critically, and a crew is taking it ahead. The media, native individuals, all are serving to us,” the SSP stated.
Violent protests had erupted close to the Baksa jail on Wednesday (October 15, 2025) when 5 accused in Garg’s loss of life case had been introduced there after a court docket in Guwahati remanded them to judicial custody.
Mr. Baruah stated that “true followers of Garg don’t have anything to fret as those that incited the violence within the guise of being followers have been recognized”.
Several individuals, together with police personnel and media individuals, had been injured when the protestors hurled stones at automobiles carrying the 5 accused and torched plenty of different automobiles.
Police needed to baton-charge and hearth tear gasoline shells to manage the scenario.
Internet and cellular information companies had been suspended within the district following the unrest, however had been restored on Friday (October 17, 2025), because the scenario returned to regular.
Prohibitory orders below Section 163 of BNSS stay in pressure in Mushalpur city, the place the jail is situated, and adjoining areas.
Security has been tightened in and across the jail, the place the accused have been lodged following the court docket order.
Garg had died whereas swimming within the sea in Singapore on September 19. He was there to take part within the 4th North East India Festival (NEIF).
NEIF chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, the singer’s supervisor Siddhartha Sharma, his cousin and police officer Sandipan Garg and his private safety officers Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya are lodged at Baksa jail.
Two others arrested in the identical case – Garg’s band members Shekharjyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta – had been additionally remanded to judicial custody by the Kamrup (Metro) chief judicial Justice of the Peace on Friday. The two have been taken to Haflong jail in Dima Hasao district.
A ten-member particular investigation crew (SIT) of CID of the Assam Police is probing the loss of life of the singer-composer.
Published – October 18, 2025 03:28 pm IST
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