Zubeen Garg’s family files complaint with Assam CID over his death, demands thorough probe’

Singer Zubeen Garg died on September 19 in Singapore during a scuba dive for the North East India Festival. His family suspects a conspiracy and has filed a complaint with the Assam CID, demanding a probe against the organisers and his manager, Siddharth Sharma

Zubeen Garg’s family files complaint with Assam CID over his death: 'We want a thorough probe'

Zubeen Garg and his wife Garima

Zubeen Garg passed away on September 19 in Singapore while scuba diving. He was there for the North East India Festival. Initially, it was considered an accident, but the family has filed a complaint, terming it a conspiracy. After Assam CM issues lookout notices, Zubeen’s family has filed a complaint with Assam CID over his death, seeking a thorough probe into the incident.

Zubeen Garg’s family files FIR

The family of Assam's cultural icon Zubeen Garg filed a complaint with the state CID over his death by drowning in Singapore, seeking a thorough probe into the incident. Garg's uncle Manoj Kumar Borthakur, a signatory in the complaint, told PTI that they had sent it to the CID through email on Saturday.

"We want a thorough probe into the circumstances of his death," he said to PTI. Garg's wife Garima and his sister Palme Borthakur are the other signatories. A senior police officer said, "We have received a complaint from Garg's family and are examining it."

He said the Special Investigating Team (SIT) of CID is already probing the incidents surrounding the death of the singer-composer on September 19 in Singapore, and the complaint filed by the family will be taken up with it. A SIT team visited Garg's residence at the Kahilipara area of Guwahati on Sunday, he said. "We needed to ask certain things, and our officers met the family. Their statements are being recorded," he added.

Zubeen Garg’s wife’s emotional appeal

This comes just over a week after Garima had appealed that all FIRs be dropped against Zubeen's manager, Siddharth Sharma. After Zubeen's death, in a video message, she had said, "I request everyone to set aside any negative thoughts about Siddharth...Zubeen has many unfinished tasks, and I cannot complete them alone. I also request that all FIRs filed against Siddharth be withdrawn.”

On September 25, the SIT and CID teams conducted raids at the houses of Siddharth, Zubeen Garg's colleague-musician Sekhar Jyoti Goswami, and the main organiser of the North East India Festival in Singapore, Shyamkanu Mahanta. They seized several items, including a pendrive, a hard disk, a computer CPU, documents, and other items.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that look-out notices have been issued against Shyamkanu Mahanta, the main organiser of the North East India Festival in Singapore, and Siddharth Sharma, singer Zubeen Garg's manager, in connection with Garg's death.

Both Mahanta and Sharma have been directed to appear before the CID office in Guwahati by October 6. Sarma warned that if they fail to comply, Assam Police will take necessary steps to bring them back to the state.