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People collect to pay tribute to late music icon Zubeen Garg in Guwahati. File | Photo Credit: PTI
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) beneath the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Assam Police is at current probing Garg’s loss of life case after greater than 60 FIRs have been lodged throughout the State.
According to a senior official, CID Special DGP Munna Prasad Gupta and Titabor Co-District SP Tarun Goel have reached Singapore in a flight from Guwahati. Mr. Gupta is heading the nine-member SIT, whereas Mr. Goel is a member of it.
The two SIT members will go to the “place of occurrence where Garg had breathed his last”, one other official mentioned. “Linking the series of events with the place of occurrence is one of the most important aspects of the entire investigation process. Besides, the Assam Police team will sit with their counterparts in Singapore to discuss the case,” he mentioned.
The celebrated singer died beneath mysterious circumstances in Singapore on September 19 whereas swimming within the sea. He had gone to the Southeast Asian nation to attend the 4th version of the North East India Festival.
The SIT can also be prone to meet the yacht pilot and attendant to know the precise particulars of the incident, the official mentioned. “They are likely to visit the five-star hotel where Garg had stayed. It will try to examine every angle of the case,” he mentioned.
The Indian authorities had earlier invoked the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) with Singapore, in search of cooperation within the investigation into the loss of life of the singer. The Singapore Police Force (SPF) can also be finishing up an impartial investigation into the incident.
In a press release on October 17, the SPF mentioned that the preliminary investigations haven’t indicated any foul play in Garg’s loss of life. It additionally mentioned that investigations into the loss of life of the favored Indian singer-songwriter-composer might take as much as one other three months, after which the findings shall be submitted to the State Coroner for additional proceedings.
The Assam Police has interrogated 10 Assamese expats from Singapore out of 11, towards whom summonses have been issued, whereas the remaining one is a citizen of the Southeast Asian nation.
A yacht was booked by a number of workplace bearers of the Assam Association Singapore, and these 11 individuals have been current when Garg allegedly drowned within the sea.
Earlier, North East India Festival’s chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, the singer’s supervisor Siddharth Sharma, and his two band members — Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amrit Prabha Mahanta — have been apprehended.
Later, Garg’s cousin and Assam Police DSP Sandipan Garg was arrested in reference to the singer’s loss of life in Singapore in September.
Zubeen Garg’s PSOs Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya have been additionally arrested after police discovered large monetary transactions, value over ₹1.1 crore, of their accounts.
All seven arrested individuals are actually in judicial custody. They have been booked beneath numerous sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for homicide, culpable murder not amounting to homicide, prison conspiracy and inflicting loss of life by negligence.
Published – October 20, 2025 07:07 pm IST
