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The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the unnatural decease of Assamese taste icon Zubeen Garg volition taxable the complaint expanse successful a section tribunal connected December 12, Special Director General of Police (CID) Munna Prasad Gupta said.
Garg died portion swimming successful the oversea disconnected an land successful Singapore connected September 19. Seven people, including his manager Siddharth Sharma and lawsuit organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, were arrested successful transportation with his death.
“We person astir completed the probe aft having recorded the statements of much than 300 people. We volition record the complaint expanse of the lawsuit connected December 12,” Mr. Gupta told journalists successful Guwahati connected Saturday (December 6, 2025).
Earlier, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the SIT was successful the process of submitting the complaint sheet. “The SIT told maine that determination are 3,000 to 3,500 documents that request to beryllium signed and photocopied. We besides discussed (the submission of the complaint sheet) with the Advocate General,” helium said.
On November 25, helium told the 126-member State Assembly that 1 idiosyncratic had murdered Garg and the others cooperated. He asserted that it was a lawsuit of “plain and elemental murder.”
“They [opposition parties] attacked me, asking however I could reason Zubeen was murdered. It is successful the court’s grounds that this was murder. We person booked 4 to 5 persons connected execution charge,” the Chief Minister said.
Without sharing details, helium alleged that a large conspiracy was hatched against Garg earlier the COVID-19 pandemic and indicated his decease was connected to fiscal transactions.
“We person the evidence. That’s wherefore I told the SIT to record the complaint expanse connected the execution lawsuit archetypal and past grow the enquiry truthful that cipher tin escape,” helium said.
Garg was not successful the champion of wellness erstwhile helium travelled to Singapore to execute astatine the 4th North East India Festival, which Mr. Mahanta had organised.
The others arrested successful transportation with Garg’s decease are his relative Sandipan Garg, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, idiosyncratic information officers Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya, bandmate Shekhar Jyoti Goswami, and vocalist Amritprabha Mahanta. They are each successful judicial custody.
