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First complainant in Zubeen Garg death case to challenge accused's bail in Supreme Court

Lawyer Ratul Bora blamed gaps in the police charge sheet after the Gauhati High Court released band member Amritprabha Mahanta and the singer's cousin, suspended DSP Sandipan Garg.

From the editorial desk · MorigaonPublished
The Gauhati High Court in Guwahati (file photo)
The Gauhati High Court in Guwahati (file photo)Photo: Pinakpani / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Key points

  1. Ratul Bora, who filed the first police complaint after Zubeen Garg's death, will move the Supreme Court.
  2. He is challenging bail granted to two of the seven accused by the Gauhati High Court.
  3. Bora said the state's role in the case had been 'not satisfactory'.

Ratul Bora, the lawyer who filed the first police complaint after singer Zubeen Garg’s death, said on Saturday that he would go to the Supreme Court against the Gauhati High Court’s decision to grant bail to two of the seven accused.

Speaking to reporters in Morigaon, Bora blamed the state police’s charge sheet. “Because of flaws in the police charge sheet, the accused in this case are getting bail one after another,” he said.

He was also critical of the Assam government’s handling of the prosecution. “The government’s role in the legal proceedings has not been satisfactory,” he said. “I will request the Supreme Court to ensure that the other accused do not get bail.”

The High Court released Amritprabha Mahanta, a member of the singer’s band, on 9 October, saying the evidence at that stage did not make out a case of conspiracy and murder against her. On Friday it granted bail to Sandipan Garg, the singer’s cousin and a suspended deputy superintendent of Assam Police, who faces a single charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

The other accused remain in custody. They include festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, the prime accused, along with Siddharth Sharma, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami, Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya.

Zubeen Garg died on 19 September 2025 while swimming in the sea in Singapore, where he had gone for the North East India Festival. A Singapore coroner’s court found no foul play, but an Assam Police CID team took up the case after more than 60 FIRs were filed across the state.