Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma reaffirmed the federal government’s dedication to delivering justice within the Zubeen Garg demise case, assuring that the chargesheet might be filed throughout the subsequent three months.
The Assam authorities on Wednesday (October 8) suspended Assam Police Service (APS) officer Sandipan Garg after he was arrested by the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) beneath the CID in reference to the mysterious demise of singer Zubeen Garg in Singapore final month. The suspension got here hours after a neighborhood court docket in Kamrup Metropolitan district remanded him to seven-day police custody.
Sandipan Garg, who served because the co-district in-charge superintendent of Boko-Chhaygaon in Kamrup, was additionally Zubeen Garg’s cousin. He had reportedly accompanied the singer on a yacht when Zubeen died whereas swimming on September 19. The case has been registered beneath a number of sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), together with homicide, culpable murder not amounting to homicide, felony conspiracy, and inflicting demise by negligence.
Increasing probe and a number of arrests
The CID has to this point arrested 5 individuals in reference to the case. Earlier, North East India Pageant chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, Zubeen’s supervisor Siddharth Sharma, and two band members- Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amrit Prabha Mahanta- had been taken into custody.
Investigators are additionally issuing recent summonses to 10 members of the Assam Affiliation Singapore who haven’t but appeared earlier than the investigating staff. CID Particular DGP Munna Prasad Gupta said that authorized procedures are being adopted to contact the NRIs overseas, urging them to cooperate with the probe.
Moreover, two of the singer’s private safety officers, Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya, had been suspended after investigators discovered suspicious monetary transactions amounting to Rs 1.1 crore of their accounts. Departmental proceedings have been initiated towards each officers.
CM vows swift justice
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned the federal government is dedicated to making sure justice within the case and {that a} chargesheet might be filed inside three months. “The inquiry is continuing on anticipated strains. We’ve got made one arrest after the opposite, and I’m assured that the chargesheet might be submitted throughout the stipulated timeframe,” Sarma mentioned whereas addressing reporters in Dibrugarh.
Defamation case filed amid investigation
Amid the continuing investigation, Chief Minister Sarma’s spouse, Riniki Bhuyan Sarma, filed a felony defamation case towards Raijor Dal chief Akhil Gogoi. Gogoi had alleged that certainly one of her corporations participated in a trend present organized throughout the North East India Pageant in Singapore. Bhuyan Sarma referred to as the accusation “false and unfounded,” and the case has been filed within the Kamrup Metro Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace’s court docket.
CID expands monetary probe
Because the investigation widens, a number of people, together with fashionable Assamese singer and longtime Zubeen affiliate Manas Robin, had been questioned on the CID headquarters on Wednesday. Robin claimed to have submitted “vital proof” of monetary irregularities associated to the competition occasion.
The Assam authorities’s swift motion, together with Sandipan Garg’s suspension and the arrest of a number of suspects, underscores the seriousness of the inquiry into what has grow to be one of many state’s most high-profile investigations lately.