The sudden death of popular Assamese singer Zubeen Garg in Singapore on September 19 has sparked widespread uproar. It has been over 13 days since the singer’s demise, and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma is ensuring that the singer gets justice. After slapping murder charges on his manager and event organisers, the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police on Thursday arrested his co-musician Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and co-singer Amritprava Mahanta, taking the total arrests in the case to four.
Zubeen Garg’s co-musician and co-singer arrested
Munna Prasad Gupta, Special Investigation Team (SIT) Chief and Special DGP, CID, told ANI that following multiple days of interrogation by the SIT/CID, Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta were arrested by the SIT/CID on Thursday night. Garg’s musician Goswami and singer Amritprava, who were present at the spot when the incident happened, were called for interrogation during the day and later arrested, they said.
“We have found some evidence against them. So, to enquire further, their arrest was necessary,” an officer said.
With this, four persons have been arrested in the case, including Garg’s manager Siddharth Sharma and festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, police said. Mahanta and Sharma were arrested on Wednesday and booked under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, criminal conspiracy, and causing death by negligence, they said.
The Special DGP of the Assam Police’s CID, Munna Prasad Gupta, told reporters that the interrogation of Mahanta and Sharma is underway after a court remanded them to 14-day police custody. “The investigation is going on, and I cannot share much detail. We have added Section 103 of the BNS in the FIR now,” he said.
About Zubeen Garg’s death probe
The CID is probing the case of Garg’s death after more than 60 FIRs were lodged across the state against Mahanta, the chief organiser of the Northeast India Festival where the singer had gone to perform, and almost 10 others, including the icon’s manager, Sharma. Assam Police formed a nine-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case.
Garg died under mysterious circumstances in Singapore on September 19 while swimming in the sea. He had gone to the Southeast Asian nation to attend the 4th edition of the Northeast India Festival, organised by Mahanta and his company.
