Assam SIT receives Zubeen Gargs viscera report

The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the demise of Assamese cultural icon Zubeen Garg whereas he was swimming off an island in Singapore on September 18, has acquired the viscera report from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in New Delhi.

SIT head and Special Director General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Munna Prasad Gupta, advised journalists in Guwahati on Saturday (October 11, 2025) that the viscera report had been despatched to the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital.

He mentioned a committee constituted by the hospital would research the viscera report and submit the ultimate post-mortem report back to the SIT. “Once acquired, we are going to submit the report back to the court docket and hand over a replica to Zubeen Garg’s household,” he mentioned.

The viscera samples had been despatched to the forensic lab in New Delhi after the second post-mortem on Garg on the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital. This autopsy was performed earlier than Garg’s mortal stays had been cremated on September 23.

The first post-mortem was performed in Singapore on September 19.

“We must look ahead to the ultimate post-mortem report back to conclude,” Mr. Gupta mentioned, reacting to stories that Garg might have been poisoned. Shekhar Jyoti Goswami, considered one of Garg’s bandmates, has claimed the singer-composer died as a result of he was poisoned by his supervisor Siddharth Sharma and North East India Festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta.

Garg was scheduled to carry out on the North East India Festival in Singapore.

Mr. Goswami, Mr. Sharma, and Mr. Mahanta are amongst seven folks arrested in reference to Garg’s demise. The others are Garg’s cousin, Deputy Superintendent of Police Sandipan Garg, private safety officers Nandeswar Bora and Paresh Baishya, and co-singer Amritprabha Mahanta.

Mr. Gupta additionally mentioned the Singapore authorities had been processing India’s request for a probe within the island nation. Various political events and social media customers have been criticising the SIT for failing to ship a workforce to Singapore to analyze and grill some individuals who had been with Garg throughout his previous couple of hours.

“We despatched a request underneath the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) to Singapore by the Ministry of Home Affairs for supplies wanted within the probe, resembling CCTV footage and statements of sure folks. The police can’t go to a different nation and begin investigating with out the mandatory clearance,” he mentioned.

“The workplace of the Attorney General, which is the nodal company in Singapore, acquired our request. It is analyzing the request and can tell us. We can’t examine in that nation with out its approval and with out the assist of the Singapore police,” Mr. Gupta mentioned.

The SIT despatched notices to 11 Singapore-based Assamese individuals who had been on the yacht through the singer’s final moments. So far, considered one of them, Rupkamal Kalita, has deposed earlier than the probe workforce.

“We are taking steps to make sure the remaining 10 Singapore-based NRIs (Non Resident Indians) come for interrogation,” Mr. Gupta mentioned.