Overview

• Zubeen Garg’s body remains at Guwahati’s Sarusajai stadium for public homage, with extended viewing after massive crowds queued through the night.
• Final rites with state honours are scheduled for September 23 at Kamarkuchi near Guwahati, with the cremation site prepared and memorial plans announced for Kamarkuchi and Jorhat.
• An FIR in Morigaon names event organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and manager Siddhartha Sharma, as police plan questioning and the state moves case documents to the CID.
• Accounts differ on the incident—organisers cited scuba-diving breathing trouble while others say he was swimming without a life jacket—though the death certificate records drowning and the post-mortem is awaited.
• The North East India Festival in Singapore was cancelled after his death, tributes poured in nationwide, and supporters in Jorhat blocked a highway urging a change in funeral venue before the CM cited logistical and family reasons.