Nine people have been arrested so far in connection with violence during the shifting of five accused in Zubeen Garg’s death case to a jail in Assam’s Baksa district, police said on Saturday (October 18, 2025).

Several others involved in the violence have been identified, and a search is underway to arrest them, Baksa senior superintendent of police (SSP) Ujjal Pratim Baruah said.

“We have arrested nine people so far. More have been identified. Some of the accused are absconding but we will apprehend them soon. We have taken this investigation very seriously, and a team is taking it forward. The media, local people, all are helping us,” the SSP said.

Violent protests had erupted near the Baksa jail on Wednesday (October 15, 2025) when five accused in Garg’s death case were brought there

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