Updated On: 02 October, 2025 09:45 AM IST | Guwahati | Agencies
Court sends manager Siddhartha Sharma and festival chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta to 14 days’ custody

Artists paint a mural of deceased singer Zubeen Garg, in Guwahati. PIC/PTI
Zubeen Garg’s manager Siddhartha Sharma and festival chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta were arrested from Delhi on Wednesday morning in connection with the singer’s death in Singapore last month, Assam Police said.
The duo has been booked under various sections of the BNS for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, criminal conspiracy and causing death by negligence. Soon after their arrest, they were brought to Guwahati and produced before the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court, which sent them to 14 days’ police custody.