{"id":73,"date":"2025-10-02T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/2025\/10\/02\/shyamkanu-mahanta-arrested-in-connection-with-zubeen-gargs-death-manager-also-detained\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:47:00","slug":"shyamkanu-mahanta-arrested-in-connection-with-zubeen-gargs-death-manager-also-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/2025\/10\/02\/shyamkanu-mahanta-arrested-in-connection-with-zubeen-gargs-death-manager-also-detained\/","title":{"rendered":"Shyamkanu Mahanta Arrested in Connection With Zubeen Garg\u2019s Death; Manager Also Detained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi \/ Guwahati, October 1, 2025<\/strong> \u2014 In a major development in the investigation into the death of celebrated Assamese singer <strong>Zubeen Garg<\/strong>, Assam Police on Wednesday arrested <strong>Shyamkanu Mahanta<\/strong>, organiser of the North East India Festival (NEIF). Mahanta was detained at Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport shortly after he landed from Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police also arrested Zubeen\u2019s manager, <strong>Siddharth Sharma<\/strong>, in connection with the case. Both were brought to Guwahati and produced before the court, which remanded them to <strong>14 days\u2019 police custody<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to sources in the Special Investigation Team (SIT), Mahanta and Sharma have been booked under multiple sections, including <strong>culpable homicide not amounting to murder<\/strong>, <strong>criminal conspiracy<\/strong>, and <strong>causing death by negligence<\/strong>. Investigators said they are examining financial, logistical, and communication records related to Zubeen\u2019s final days in Singapore, where the artist passed away on <strong>19 September 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrest has triggered widespread reactions across Assam, where Zubeen\u2019s fan base spans generations. Supporters gathered in several parts of Guwahati demanding a transparent and swift probe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police officials said they have initiated the process of securing medical and post-mortem documents from Singapore through diplomatic channels to strengthen the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the probe continues, the focus now shifts to uncovering the circumstances leading to the singer\u2019s untimely death and the role of those closely associated with him during his final days abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dipanjana Dutta<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi \/ Guwahati, October 1, 2025 \u2014 In a major development in the investigation into the death of celebrated Assamese singer Zubeen Garg, Assam Police on Wednesday arrested Shyamkanu Mahanta, organiser of the North East India Festival (NEIF). Mahanta was detained at Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International Airport shortly after he landed from Singapore. Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netimes.news\/sikkim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}