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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma connected Saturday (October 4, 2025) said that the authorities constabulary cannot question to Singapore to behaviour the probe into the mysterious decease of taste icon Zubeen Garg.
Speaking to reporters aft gathering Garg's household successful Guwahati, Mr. Sarma besides said that Assam Police volition not beryllium capable to "join the dots" if the Assamese people, who were contiguous connected the yacht astatine the clip of Garg's decease successful the Southeast Asian nation, articulation the probe.
"Our full interest present is whether the radical surviving successful Singapore volition travel oregon not. If they bash not come, we volition not beryllium capable to implicit the inquiry. They were the main radical down the yacht trip," helium added.
Garg died nether mysterious circumstances successful Singapore connected September 19 portion swimming successful the sea. He had gone to the Southeast Asian federation to be the 4th variation of the North East India Festival, organised by Shyamkanu Mahanta and his company.
"Assam Police cannot spell to Singapore, truthful it cannot instrumentality up the probe there. They are successful Singapore, and it is not nether my jurisdiction. Unless they travel there, cipher volition beryllium capable to articulation the dots," Mr. Sarma said.
The State CID, which is probing the untimely decease of the singer, had issued notices to immoderate members of the Assam Association, Singapore to contiguous themselves earlier it by October 6.
"Their parents enactment successful Assam. So, we, the radical of Assam, indispensable enactment unit connected the parents to inquire their wards to travel present for the probe," the CM added.
The State CID is presently probing the lawsuit of Garg's decease aft much than 60 FIRs person been lodged crossed the authorities against Shyamkanu Mahanta, the main organiser of the North East India Festival, wherever the vocalist had gone to perform, and astir 10 others, including his manager Siddharth Sharma and set members Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amrit Prabha Mahanta.
Already, these 4 radical person been arrested successful the lawsuit and sent to 14 days of constabulary remand each.
Mr. Sarma further said, "The radical of Assam should enactment unit connected the Assamese assemblage of Singapore truthful that those acrophobic are sent here. A fewer of them person already written to america that they cannot travel owed to immoderate problems. But they person the work arsenic an Assamese."
To bring the radical acrophobic done instrumentality is simply a antithetic thing, but it volition beryllium sooner if determination is nationalist unit connected them, helium added.
"If they don't travel by October 6, we volition person to participate different cycle," Mr. Sarma said without elaborating.
When asked astir reports of Garg's drummer Mr. Goswami's assertion earlier the constabulary that the vocalist was poisoned, the CM said that galore things volition beryllium spoken during the people of the investigation.
“On October 10, the viscera study volition come. So, we volition travel to cognize connected October 11 what really happened. But the police’s work is to enactment everything successful the lawsuit diary.”
"Some radical volition accidental good, immoderate volition accidental bad. Those are not the police's version, but statements of a witnesser only. It cannot beryllium the police's version," helium added.
Mr. Sarma said that the poisoning connection is not of police, but of 1 accused.
"Now, wherefore has helium made that statement? Is it to safeguard himself oregon to blasted idiosyncratic other — these things volition beryllium revealed during investigation," helium added.
The Assam authorities connected Friday acceptable up a one-man judicial commission, headed by Justice Soumitra Saikia of the Gauhati High Court, to probe the mysterious decease of taste icon Zubeen Garg.
Speaking astir the commission, Mr. Sarma said, "Now, anyone who wants to talk oregon supply america immoderate accusation relating to the mysterious decease of Zubeen, they get a platform."
He said that the sitting justice volition besides person an accidental to oversee the ongoing CID probe of the high-profile case.
"It is simply a benignant of assemblage which volition besides instrumentality attraction of the proofs and if they find that we are doing thing wrong, the judicial committee volition beryllium capable to beryllium stricter connected us. It volition beryllium a wholly autarkic commission," Mr. Sarma said.
He besides asserted that successful Assam, ne'er earlier a sitting justice was entrusted with the work of inquiring immoderate issue.
"So, this is the archetypal lawsuit successful Assam. I anticipation that we volition beryllium capable to bring everything into the nationalist domain erstwhile the probe is complete," Mr. Sarma said.
The CM said that helium spent astir an hr with Garg's household and reminisced astir antithetic past memories.
“It was not an authoritative visit. I came to spot the household personally and walk immoderate clip with them. I met Zubeen’s father, woman and sister.”
"Garima was my inferior successful Cotton College and I knew Zubeen and Garima for a agelong time. I conscionable came to stock our grief together. We did not sermon the lawsuit astatine all," helium added.
