Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said singer Zubeen Garg’s death in Singapore was not ‘accidental’; it was a murder. He said: “It was a murder case from the very first day. The accused Shyamkanu Mahanta, Siddharth Sharma, Amritprava Mahanta, and Shekhar Jyoti Goswami are locked up in a murder case.”
During his address in the Assam Assembly on Tuesday, Himanta said: “Our emotions are with Zubeen. That is why we are probing Zubeen Garg’s murder.”
Zubeen Garg died while swimming in Singapore on September 19, 2025.
At the Winter Session of the Assam Legislative Assembly https://t.co/UL9Zh0BUX4
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) November 25, 2025
Explaining why he called the death a “murder”, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said: “Right after the death we felt there was something amiss, which is why we registered an FIR under BNS sections 61 (criminal conspiracy), 105 (culpable homicide), and 106 (causing death by rash and negigent act).”
‘Zubeen death chargesheet to be filed before December 10’: Himanta
He said during the initial stages the Assam Police was sure that it was a “plain and simple murder”. “That is why within two days, the Assam government told the court that it was a murder and sought the addition of Section 103 (punishment for murder) to the charges.” He said all bail applications and other proceedings have based on Section 103.
Earlier, Himanta Biswa Sarma had said, “As you know, if any incident happens in a foreign country, under Section 208 of BNSS, the prosecuting agency has to take a prior sanction of the Ministry of Home Affairs or the Central Government. Without that sanction, the court will not take cognisance of the matter, and it will not proceed to trial. Today, Union HM Amit Shah has accorded a sanction to proceed with the matter further, and the sanction will enable us to give a chargesheet in time… We’ll conclude the investigation within a period of 10 to 15 days, and we’ll file our chargesheet before December 10.”