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The Assam authorities has decided to petition the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court to represent a fast-track tribunal for Zubeen Garg’s decease trial.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told journalists connected Thursday (October 16, 2025) that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the lawsuit was assured of filing the complaint expanse by the archetypal week of December, though the constabulary statutorily get 90 days to bash so.
“Courts usually instrumentality clip to present judgments, but radical privation justness fast. The Cabinet has frankincense decided that the Chief Justice would beryllium contacted truthful that we get a fast-track tribunal arsenic soon arsenic the complaint expanse is filed,” helium said.
He further stated that the authorities decided to name a Special Public Prosecutor successful consultation with the State’s Advocate General. The Special Public Prosecutor volition exclusively enactment connected the lawsuit during the period, from the filing of the complaint expanse till the pronouncement of judgement by the court.
The Government, meanwhile, constituted an 11-member committee to alteration the tract wherever Garg’s past rites were performed into a imperishable ‘samadhisthal’ (memorial). The committee has the singer’s wife, Garima Saikia Garg, and Guwahati Police Commissioner Partha Sarathi Mahanta.
Congress person Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to sojourn the tract astatine Sonapur connected Friday. The Chief Minister welcomed the sojourn but criticised Gandhi for the delay.
