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The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing Assamese taste icon Zubeen Garg’s mysterious decease expects to get CCTV footage and witnesser statements from the Singapore Police Force (SPF) wrong 10 days.
Garg died portion swimming disconnected an land successful Singapore connected September 19, hours earlier helium was scheduled to execute astatine the North East India Festival there.
Two members of the SIT, led by Special Director General of Police (Criminal Investigation Department) Munna Prasad Gupta, went to Singapore connected October 20 and held a gathering with a five-member SPF squad the adjacent day.
“The gathering was fruitful. We exchanged accusation connected the ongoing investigation,” helium told journalists connected Friday (October 24, 2025), the time aft the SIT squad returned to Guwahati.
SPF shares post-mortem report
He said the SPF shared Garg’s post-mortem study conducted successful Singapore with the SIT done the Indian High Commission. “We told the Singapore Police that we needed their ineligible assistance, arsenic we wanted to implicit our probe wrong a clip frame. They said they would assistance by staying wrong Singapore’s visa ineligible system,” Mr. Gupta said.
He further stated that the SIT visited respective sites successful Singapore connected to the lawsuit and conducted different ineligible work in that country. “We sought the Singapore Police’s assistance to get CCTV footage from the edifice [where Garg stayed], arsenic the laws of the state prohibit america from taking it straight from the edifice management. The Singapore Police assured america that they would springiness a affirmative effect wrong 10 days,” Mr Gupta said.
The SIT had earlier requested the Singapore authorities, done the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, to supply the statements of immoderate Singapore nationals deemed captious for the probe. “The Singapore constabulary volition grounds their statements and interaction america wrong 10 days,” Mr Gupta said, declining to uncover what the probe squad has recovered truthful acold successful the case.
He besides said the SIT would record the charge-sheet successful tribunal wrong the clip stipulated nether the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. “If required, we volition summon the Singapore-based Assamese expatriates who were with Garg during his past moments,” helium added.
The statements of much than 10 expatriates person been recorded successful Assam.
