Zubeen Garg's close associate Arun appears before CID

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Fans wage  tribute to the precocious   vocalist  Zubeen Garg. File

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Zubeen Garg's adjacent subordinate Arun connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) appeared earlier CID's Special Investigating Team (SIT), which is probing the singer-composer's decease successful Singapore past month, officials said.

They, however, did not divulge details of Arun's sojourn to the CID office.

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Arun, whom Garg considered household and was among the 4 persons who had lit his ceremonial pyre, demanded speedy justness for the deceased icon portion talking to reporters later.

The younker had been with Zubeen's household for respective years and had adjacent forsaken his household surname and identified himself arsenic 'Arun Garg'.

"We privation justness for Dada (elder brother). There has been truthful overmuch delay," Arun said.

Asked astir the alleged fiscal and different irregularities committed by different adjacent associates of Garg, Arun said, "I don't cognize of each those things. I enactment chiefly with 'Bou' (sister-in-law, referring to Garg's woman Garima)." "The lone happening I cognize is that we request justice. Why is it taking truthful overmuch time?" helium questioned.

On Assam-origin residents successful Singapore not appearing earlier the CID adjacent aft being summoned twice, Arun said, "Those who are successful Singapore should beryllium brought here, they should beryllium dragged here. I don't recognize wherefore they are not coming." Assam Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is probing the decease of Garg portion swimming successful the oversea successful Singapore connected September 19 and has constituted a 10-member SIT, headed by Special DG Munna Prasad Gupta, for the purpose.

Garg was successful the Southeast Asian federation to be the North East India Festival.

A apical CID authoritative had said earlier that statements of Garg's household members volition beryllium recorded successful owed course, on with radical who were progressive with the singer-composer successful antithetic ways.

Statements of respective friends, radical of the taste tract and others person already been recorded by the investigating agency, with 7 arrests made truthful acold successful the case.

Those arrested are North East India Festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, the singer's relative Sandipan Garg, his manager Siddhartha Sharma, instrumentalist Shekharjyoti Goswami, vocalist Amritprava Mahanta and his 2 PSOs Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya.

Published - October 12, 2025 03:01 p.m. IST

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