Assam forms SIT to probe Zubeen Garg's death

GUWAHATI: Assam constabulary formed Wednesday a nine-member SIT to probe the circumstances surrounding the decease of vocalist Zubeen Garg portion swimming successful the oversea successful Singapore connected Sept 19.

"We volition not spare anyone," CM Himanta Biswa Sarma wrote connected X. CID ADG MP Gupta volition pb the SIT, which Sarma said volition person "full state to analyse the case".Viscera collected during a 2nd autopsy volition beryllium examined astatine Central Forensic Laboratory successful New Delhi. After Zubeen death, CM blacklists fest organiser successful Assam The archetypal autopsy was carried retired successful Singapore, wherever authorities issued a decease certificate listing the origin arsenic "drowning".Amid increasing calls for justice, 55 FIRs person been lodged against 4 men: Shyamkanu Mahanta, organiser of North East India Festival successful Singapore wherever Garg was to execute connected Sept 20; the singer's manager Siddharth Sarma, attached to a Mumbai-based endowment absorption institution that represented Garg; drummer Shekharjyoti Goswami; and businessman Sanjive Narain.Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said Mahanta and immoderate radical linked to him were blacklisted from hosting events successful Assam. "State govt volition not supply immoderate fiscal grant, advertisement, oregon sponsorship to immoderate lawsuit with which helium is associated, either straight oregon indirectly. State govt volition besides petition Union govt not to widen immoderate fiscal assistance oregon sponsorship to him successful immoderate manner," the CM said.In Guwahati, fans gathered extracurricular Narain's bureau arsenic helium addressed a property league denying each allegations.

Narain, who had travelled to Singapore, said helium went to spot Garg aft being informed by Mahanta that the vocalist had met with an accident.At Gauhati precocious court, advocator Sandeep Chamaria filed a PIL seeking transportation of the lawsuit to CBI with tribunal monitoring, arguing imaginable lapses successful information for the vocalist successful Singapore. The plea volition beryllium heard Nov 10.The singer's woman Garima Saikia Garg vowed to implicit his unfinished Assamese philharmonic movie 'Roi Roi Binale', which helium produced and had scheduled for an Oct 31 release. "His ain dependable dubbing remained unfinished. Perhaps we volition not perceive his dependable successful the film," she said.On the investigation, Garima expressed religion successful the govt and the law.(With inputs from Kangkan Kalita)