‘Assam Police Can’t Probe In Singapore’: CM Himanta Urges Yacht Witnesses To Speak On Zubeen Garg’s Death

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the state police cannot travel to Singapore to conduct the investigation into the mysterious death of cultural icon Zubeen Garg, urging the witnesses

present in the yacht at the time of the singer's death. Assam Police will not be able to "join the dots" if the Assamese people, who were present on the yacht at the time of Garg's death in the Southeast Asian nation, join the probe, Sarma told reporters on Saturday after meeting with the singer's family in Guwahati. "Our entire concern now is whether the people living in Singapore will come or not. If they do not come, we will not be able to complete the inquiry. They were the main people behind the yacht trip," he added."Assam Police cannot go to Singapore, so it cannot take up the investigation there. They are in Singapore, and it is not under my jurisdiction. Unless they come there, nobody will be able to join the dots," Sarma said.

Zubeen Garg was in the Southeast Asian nation to attend the 4th edition of the North East India Festival, organised by Shyamkanu Mahanta and his company. He dies under mysterious circumstances on September 19. The state CID is currently probing Zubeen's death, with the Enforcement Directorate and the Income Tax (IT) department joining the investigation. More than 60 FIRs have been lodged across the state against Shyamkanu Mahanta, the chief organiser of the North East India Festival, and 10 others, including Garg's manager Siddharth Sharma and band members Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amrit Prabha Mahanta. All four have been arrested and remanded to 14-day custody.

Officials of ED and IT department have already visited the CID headquarters to look into the case related to a fiscal scam allegedly committed by Shyamkanu Mahanta, sources told PTI. Officials of ED and IT department have already visited the CID headquarters to look into the case related to a fiscal scam allegedly committed by Shyamkanu Mahanta, sources told PTI. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had on Friday announced that a judicial commission will be formed to probe the death of the state's cultural icon Zubeen Garg. Sarma, in a Facebook Live, said that the commission will be headed by Justice Soumitra Saikia of the Gauhati High Court.