Murder charge slapped on four despite Singapore cops’ no foul play line
All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) members stage a protest demanding justice for late singer Zubeen Garg on his 53rd birth anniversary, in Guwahati in November. Pic/PTI
A Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing into the death of singer Zubeen Garg, on Friday charged four accused with murder in its chargesheet filed in a Guwahati court. The accused are Shyamkanu Mahanta, Siddhartha Sharma, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta, lawyers said.
Shyamkanu Mahanta was the chief organiser of the North East India Festival, which was attended by Garg in Singapore, where he died under mysterious circumstances while swimming in the sea on September 19.
SIT officials carrying a trunk that contains statements from nearly 300 individuals related to the Zubeen Garg death case. Pic/PTI
Garg's cousin and suspended Assam Police officer Sandipan Garg has been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the over 3500-page chargsheet submitted at the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court earlier in the day, the lawyers said.
The Assam government had constituted the SIT, led by Special DGP MP Gupta, to investigate into the singer's death. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had claimed in the recently concluded assembly session that Garg's death was 'plain and simple murder'.
Zubeen Garg
The Singapore Police Force (SPF), carrying out an independent investigation into Garg's death, had said in a statement that preliminary probe has not indicated any foul play, and that the investigations may take up to another three months.
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