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NEW DELHI: The ruling BJP and absorption Congress connected Wednesday called for an probe into the untimely decease of authorities icon and vocalist Zubeen Garg, who died successful Singapore past week.Chief curate and BJP person Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that a peculiar squad of the state’s "best constabulary officers" volition probe the lawsuit and vowed not to "spare" anyone recovered involved. "I person instructed the DGP to represent a Special Investigation Team (SIT) with the champion officers of Assam Police. The viscera samples volition beryllium sent to the Central Forensic Laboratory (CFL), Delhi, for elaborate examination. The SIT volition person afloat state to analyse the lawsuit with implicit nonrecreational integrity," helium wrote connected X.
Congress person and person of absorption Debabrata Saikia wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Garg, 52, died connected September 19; helium was successful Singapore for the Northeast India Festival. After his demise, the festival organisers issued a statement, saying that the vocalist suffered breathing difficulties during scuba diving.Addressing a property league connected Monday, Sarma said the Singapore High Commission had sent Garg’s decease certificate, which listed drowning arsenic the origin of death.
"But this is not a post-mortem report. The post-mortem study is different, and the decease certificate is different. We volition nonstop the documents to CID. The Chief Secretary of the Assam Government is contacting the Singapore Ambassador to get the post-mortem study arsenic soon arsenic possible," helium added.
Investigation into the lawsuit against 4 persons — accused successful implicit 55 FIRs filed crossed Assam successful transportation with the singer’s decease — began connected Tuesday, pursuing the completion of his cremation and a four-day mourning period. The FIRs were lodged astatine assorted constabulary stations against North East India Festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, Zubeen’s manager Sidharth Sharma, drummer Shekhar Jyoti Goswami, and businessman Sanjive Naraine.
The complaints allege their engagement successful a imaginable conspiracy successful Garg's death.
