Zubeen Garg Death: ED, IT Likely To Probe Event Manager Shyamkanu Mahanta, Assam To Form Judicial Commission

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Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Income Tax (IT) Department are likely to join the Assam Police in investigating alleged organised financial crimes and acquisition of benami properties by event manager Shyamkanu Mahanta, an accused in the death of singer Zubeen Garg. At present, Assam CID is probing the case of Garg's death. More than 60 FIRs have been lodged across the state against Mahanta, the chief organiser of the Northeast India Festival, where the singer had gone to perform, and almost 10 others.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.

The CID seized bundles of incriminating documents and items from Mahanta's home during raids on September 25 and 26, such as multiple PAN cards in the name of the same firm, nearly 30 stamp seals of different companies and government officials, and documents related to several benami properties, the news agency said. Mahanta and Garg's manager Siddharth Sharma are in CID's custody for 14 days. Meanwhile, Garg's band members Shekharjyoti Goswami and Amritprabha Mahanta have been sent to 14-day police remand.

Judicial Commission To Begin Probe: Assam CM

Assam Chief Minster Himanta Biswa Sarma 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."We will form the commission tomorrow. Now, we request all the people who have any information or videos related to Zubeen Garg's death to come forward and depose in front of the commission," CM Sarma said. "Now, those who had shared different information related to Zubeen's death on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, it is their duty to submit affidavits in front of the commission," he added. "Now, the government requests members of the Assam Association of Singapore, who were accompanying the singer on the day of his death, to come forward and give their statement," he said, adding that otherwise, it will have to take action against them. (With PTI inputs)