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The Assam authorities has submitted a ceremonial petition to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to invoke the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) with Singapore successful transportation with singer Zubeen Garg's decease successful the Southeast Asian country, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said connected Monday (September 29, 2025).
"Once invoked, this volition guarantee afloat practice from Singaporean authorities — giving america entree to lawsuit details and assistance to bring backmost the accused and unafraid justice," Mr. Sarma said successful an X post.
The Assam authorities constituted a 10-member SIT, led by Special DGP M P Gupta, to analyse the singer's decease successful Singapore due to drowning successful the oversea connected September 19.
Two Assam Police officers are apt to sojourn Singapore soon aft the completion of indispensable formalities.
‘We privation to cognize what happened’: Zubeen’s wife
Zubeen Garg’s wife, Garima Saikia Garg, said that the singer’s household wants to cognize what had happened successful his past moments that led to his death, and that a due enquiry should beryllium conducted.
“We privation to cognize what happened to him, wherefore it happened and however this negligence could beryllium allowed to happen? We privation answers,” Ms. Garima told reporters aft the behaviour of the 11th time rituals for the vocalist successful Guwahati.
She said each those who were determination with him connected the yacht (before his death) and astatine the lawsuit “must reply this”.
“Why did they not assistance him from the h2o erstwhile they knew helium was not successful a information to swim? They could person done so, arsenic it was precise casual to distract him,” she said.
His manager, Siddhartha Sharma, was alert that Zubeen should not spell adjacent h2o oregon occurrence arsenic it could trigger his epileptic seizure, she said.
“I privation justice! I privation a due enquiry and answers to each our questions. I person afloat religion successful the probe process,” Ms. Garima added.
She said that the household had hoped that the radical accompanying him would instrumentality attraction of him, but “now we realise that they did not bash so”.
Asked whether Zubeen had taken the medicines prescribed, his woman said that she was not alert whether helium had taken those oregon not, but his medicines were sent on with him from present erstwhile helium travelled to Singapore.
“He took lone 1 medicine since August 2024 aft helium had a seizure onslaught and I had ensured that his medicines were determination wherever helium went, whether successful the house, car oregon the studio,” she said.
She said that they were yet to get the singer’s mobile phone.
Ms. Garima said that the vocalist had spoken to her connected the erstwhile time of the incidental and had not mentioned plans for the yacht trip.
“He is usually precise excited astir these things and I americium amazed that helium did not speech astir it. Perhaps helium was not alert of it,” she said.
Ms. Garima said that she is getting spot from Zubeen’s words arsenic helium ever said that helium was “a tiger and truthful I, too, should beryllium a tigress successful hard times”.
She besides thanked the radical of the full authorities for extending immense enactment and spot to the bereaved family.
