Mumbai, Oct 15 (NationPress) The investigation into the tragic and accidental demise of the iconic singer-composer Zubeen Garg is gaining traction. Recently, five out of the seven individuals implicated have been remanded to judicial custody for two weeks.

Among these five individuals are the late artist’s manager and his cousin. According to media reports, the accused Shyamkanu Mahanta, Siddharth Sharma, Sandipan Garg, Paresh Baishya, and Nandeswar Bora were ordered into judicial custody by the chief judicial magistrate of the Kamrup Metropolitan district, Baloram Kshetri, after their police remand expired.

Mahanta is the organizer of the event in Singapore that Zubeen Garg attended. Siddharth Sharma is his manager, while Sandipan, a police officer in the Assam state police, is also the singer's cousin. Siddharth and Sandipan were present during the incident when Garg drowned; however, Mahanta was in Singapore for the event but not at the alleged crime scene.

The arrests occurred earlier this month by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Assam police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) due to their suspected roles in the singer’s drowning.

Zubeen Garg, who passed away on September 19, 2025, in Singapore due to a swimming accident, was not just a singer but a cultural icon of Assam and India. He began his mainstream music journey in 1990 and quickly became a beloved figure in Assam. By the dawn of the millennium, he branched into Hindi film music, debuting with ‘Jaane Kya Hoga Rama Re’ from ‘Kaante’, which was an unofficial remake of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Reservoir Dogs’.

His popularity soared with the hit ‘Ya Ali’ from ‘Gangster’, a song that has resonated with an entire generation even after nearly two decades.

Though he continued to produce independent Hindi music, he chose to remain rooted in Assam. Over a career that spanned more than three decades, Zubeen recorded approximately 38,000 songs across major Indian languages, a remarkable achievement in the music industry.