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The Centre connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) granted the required authorisation to the Assam Police to proceed against radical linked to the decease of Assamese taste icon Zubeen Garg successful Singapore connected September 19.
The determination was timed with the 53rd birth day of the singer-composer-actor, celebrated crossed the State, including the spot adjacent Guwahati wherever helium was cremated.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the support from the Union Home Ministry nether Section 208 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) was necessary, arsenic the alleged “murder” occurred successful different country.
“Today marks the 53rd day of our beloved Zubeen Garg — a time that reminds america of his music, his voice, and his irreplaceable spot successful Assam’s heart,” helium said and elaborated connected the sanction.
“Section 208 of the BNSS, successful elemental language, says: if a transgression is committed extracurricular India, the lawsuit tin beryllium taken up by the tribunal lone aft the Central authorities gives anterior sanction,” helium said.
“This authorisation is, therefore, a important ineligible step, allowing america to record a complaint expanse and determination guardant firmly and lawfully for the proceedings of the case. We stay afloat committed to record the complaint expanse against the accused persons by December 10, 2025,” helium stated.
Garg died portion swimming disconnected a Singapore land successful the sea. He had travelled to Singapore to instrumentality portion successful the 4th variation of the North East India Festival. Seven people, including the festival’s organiser, Shyamkanu Mahanta, were arrested by the Special Investigation Team. All of them are successful judicial custody.
Earlier, Garg’s fans began gathering extracurricular his Guwahati residence past Monday (November 17, 2025) midnight to observe his birthday. They chopped a cake, placed it earlier his photograph, and sang the day opus on with his different fashionable numbers.
Garg’s wife, Garima Saikia Garg and sister, Palmee Borthakur, joined the fans to people the day.
The Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress paid tributes to the precocious Garg, too. The BJP organised humor donation camps astatine immoderate places, portion the second resolved to proceed to combat for justness for Garg and his family.
In occidental Assam’s Kokrajhar, Bodoland Territorial Council main Hagrama Mohilary laid the instauration chromatic for the Zubeen Garg Park. The centrepiece of the 30-bigha parkland volition beryllium a statue of the singer-actor.
