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 confirmed.
The duo has been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder, criminal conspiracy, and causing death by negligence. Following their arrest, they were brought to Guwahati and produced before the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court, which sent them to 14 days of police custody.
Since the courts were closed for Durga Puja, the hearing took place at the residence of the judge.
Special DGP (CID) Munna Prasad Gupta stated that investigations into the singer’s death will be conducted in accordance with the law. A lookout notice through Interpol had already been issued against both individuals. Based on this notice, immigration authorities detained Mahanta when he arrived at Delhi airport from Singapore and handed him over to Assam Police.
Regarding Sharma, Gupta said, “We tracked his location to Delhi and Rajasthan. Last night, we located him near the Delhi-Haryana border and arrested him.”
The state government recently banned Mahanta, the chief organiser of the North East Festival — which Garg had attended in Singapore before his death — from holding any function or event in Assam.
Zubeen Garg’s wife, Garima Saikia Garg, expressed her full faith in the investigating team and hoped that they would soon uncover what exactly happened.
The Assam government had earlier constituted a 10-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the singer’s death in Singapore, which allegedly occurred due to drowning on September 19.
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