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GUWAHATI
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025), told the 126-member State Assembly that 1 idiosyncratic murdered Assamese taste icon Zubeen Garg and others helped the killer.
He did not sanction the “murderer” and his accomplices portion speaking during a treatment connected the singer-composer-actor’s decease during an adjournment question moved by the Opposition. Speaker Biswajit Daimary allowed the question connected the Chief Minister’s request.
Garg died portion swimming successful the oversea disconnected an land successful Singapore connected September 19. He travelled to the Southeast Asian state to execute astatine the 4th North East India Festival (NEIF).
“They attacked me, asking however I could reason Zubeen was murdered. But it is successful the court’s grounds that this was murder. I repetition successful the House that it was murder. One idiosyncratic murdered him, and others cooperated. We person booked 4 to 5 persons connected the execution charge,” Mr. Sarma said.
Seven radical were arrested successful transportation with Garg’s death. They are NEIF organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, Garg’s manager Siddhartha Sharma, DSP relative Sandipan Garg, idiosyncratic information officers Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya, bandmate Shekhar Jyoti Goswami, and vocalist Amritprabha Mahanta.
The Chief Minister said a “big story” involving the taste icon started earlier the COVID-19 pandemic and indicated that his decease was connected to fiscal dealings.
“We person the evidence. That’s wherefore I told the SIT to archetypal record the complaint expanse connected the execution lawsuit connected December 8 and past grow the enquiry truthful that cipher tin escape,” helium said, asking the Opposition members to support religion successful the SIT probe aft they demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Mr. Sarma said the authorities believed Garg’s decease was not a mean lawsuit connected the precise archetypal day. “So, we registered a lawsuit nether Sections 61 (criminal conspiracy), 105 (culpable homicide) and 106 (causing decease by negligence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita,” helium said.
“During preliminary investigation, the Assam constabulary were definite that it was not a lawsuit of culpable homicide but a plain and elemental murder. So, wrong 2 days, the Assam authorities informed the tribunal that it was a lawsuit of execution and requested it to adhd the BNS conception 103. The tribunal did truthful aft a statement connected it,” helium said.
The Chief Minister said that the Ministry of Home Affairs would not person granted the required authorisation nether Section 208 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita had the SIT not conducted a thorough inquiry. This conception states that if a transgression is committed extracurricular India, the lawsuit tin lone beryllium taken up by a tribunal aft the Central authorities has sanctioned it.
