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A tribunal successful Guwahati connected Monday (March 2, 2026) ordered the de-freezing of the slope relationship of an accused successful the Zubeen Garg decease lawsuit implicit "technical lapses", portion fixing March 19 for information of complaint hearing, the peculiar nationalist authoritative (SPP) successful the lawsuit said.
The Kamrup Metropolitan District and Sessions Court, which is proceeding the case, besides rejected a petition by different accused seeking study of the Singapore Police, helium said.
SPP Ziaul Kamar, briefing reporters, said, "The honourable tribunal has acceptable March 19 for the information of the complaint hearing. After that, the proceedings volition begin."
He asserted that the prosecution, which leads the complaint hearing, volition beryllium acceptable for it, though helium could not remark connected behalf of the accused.
"I don't cognize what the accused volition do, what petition they whitethorn file," Mr. Kamar, who had earlier charged the accused of adopting delaying tactics by submitting antithetic petitions, added.
He said the tribunal has ordered to de-freeze the slope relationship of 1 of the accused, Shyamkanu Mahanta, for "technical reasons".
Garg's wife, Garima Saikia Garg, who was contiguous astatine the proceeding on with the celebrated singer's sister Palme Barthakur, expressed "disappointment" astatine de-freezing of Mahanta's slope account.
"It is atrocious quality for us. It was ordered owed to immoderate procedural lapse and method issue," she said.
The elder counsel further said that the tribunal has rejected the petition by different accused, Siddharth Sharma, seeking a transcript of Singapore Police's study successful Garg's case.
"The tribunal said that the Assam Police has already acquired each the details and it tin beryllium accessed by the accused for further introspection connected March 10 to 12, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.," helium said.
On Mr. Sharma seeking de-attachment of his level successful Guwahati, Kamar said the tribunal has ordered that it whitethorn beryllium opened if Mr. Sharma provides a slope surety of ₹16 lakh to the police.
Mr. Sharma, Garg's manager, is accused of utilizing an magnitude of ₹16 lakh embezzled from the vocalist portion purchasing the flat.
A abstracted lawsuit concerning a packaged drinking h2o company, Mahabir Aqua, of which Mr. Sharma is simply a co-owner, volition besides beryllium taken up by the aforesaid tribunal connected March 19, Mr. Kamar added.
Asked astir immoderate advancement successful mounting up the fast-track tribunal to instrumentality guardant the lawsuit arsenic announced by the government, the SPP said it is simply a substance betwixt the authorities and the Gauhati High Court.
He maintained that it volition decidedly expedite the proceeding process, though "legal procedures cannot beryllium curtailed".
"The accused besides person their rights. They mightiness record petitions (before the fast-track court), we mightiness besides person to record petitions," Mr. Kamar added.
Ms. Garima besides hoped that mounting up a fast-track tribunal volition expedite the case, though she was not alert of advancement successful the matter.
The celebrated vocalist had died connected September 19 past twelvemonth portion swimming successful the oversea successful Singapore, wherever helium had gone to to be the 4th variation of the North East India Festival (NEIF).
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the authorities police's CID probed the lawsuit and submitted the charge-sheet successful December, which included execution charges against immoderate of the accused.
Besides NEIF main organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and Mr. Sharma, Garg's 2 set members, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amrit Prabha Mahanta, his relative and now-suspended Assam Police DSP Sandipan Garg, and his PSOs Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya are successful jailhouse arsenic accused successful the case.
The State furniture had earlier appointed a five-member squad of Special Public Prosecutors (PP) with elder advocator Ziaul Kamar to pb it. It had named Brojendra Mohan Chaudhuri arsenic further PP, and Kishor Dutta, Pranjal Dutta and Vikash Jammar arsenic adjunct PPs.
Ruling retired immoderate foul play, a Coroner's Court successful Singapore had said that the fashionable Indian singer-songwriter was severely intoxicated and had drowned disconnected Lazarus Island aft declining a beingness jacket.
