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Two set members of Zubeen Garg — Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta — were remanded to judicial custody connected Friday, aft their 14 days of constabulary remand ended successful transportation with the singer’s decease successful Singapore past month.
The duo was brought to tribunal and aboriginal taken distant successful abstracted constabulary vans, aft the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate remanded them to judicial custody.
They volition beryllium produced successful tribunal again wrong 14 days.
Authorities are tight-lipped astir the situation wherever they volition beryllium lodged, pursuing unit extracurricular the Baksa District Jail wherever the 5 different accused successful the lawsuit were taken connected Wednesday, aft they were remanded to judicial custody.
Both Goswami and Mahanta were arrested connected October 3 aft respective days of interrogation by the Special Investigation Team (SIT), and remanded to 14 days’ constabulary custody.
Altogether, 7 persons person been arrested by the SIT since October 1 successful the case, and each person been remanded to judicial custody.
Garg had died portion swimming successful the oversea successful Singapore connected September 19.
North East India Festival (NEIF) main organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, the singer's manager Siddhartha Sharma, his relative and constabulary serviceman Sandipan Garg, and his idiosyncratic information officers Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya were remanded to judicial custody connected Wednesday (October 15) by the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate.
The court, expressing interest for their safety, had besides ruled that they should beryllium sent to a jailhouse with lesser prisoners, and accordingly, the accused were taken to the Baksa District Jail.
A immense assemblage had gathered extracurricular the jail, protesting against the accused being brought to Baksa, and immoderate adjacent demanded that they beryllium handed implicit to the nationalist to guarantee "justice for Zubeen".
The Assam Police had to lathicharge and occurrence teargas shells to disperse the mob, which “attacked, acceptable ablaze immoderate vehicles and hurled stones” astatine the convoy carrying the 5 accused.
Prohibitory orders person been imposed nether Section 163 of BNSS successful Mushalpur municipality and adjoining areas of the jail, portion internet/mobile information services successful the full Baksa territory volition stay suspended with contiguous effect till further orders, officials said.
Several people, including constabulary personnel, mediapersons and section residents, were injured successful the unrest, they said. Earlier, the Assam authorities had constituted a 10-member SIT to analyse into Garg’s decease successful Singapore.
More than 60 FIRs person been filed crossed the authorities against Mahanta, Sharma and respective others, pursuing which Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had directed the DGP to transportation each the FIRs to the CID, and registry a consolidated lawsuit for thorough investigation.
