Zubeen Garg death: Assam Police arrests two musicians who were with him on yacht

The Assam Police on Thursday arrested two musicians who were in Singapore with singer Zubeen Garg when he drowned to death during a yacht trip, reported The Indian Express.

Garg, a popular Assamese singer, died on September 19, a day before he was scheduled to perform at the North East India Festival.

The event had been organised by the government of India and the Indian Embassy in Singapore, with support from the Assam Association and the North East India Association in the country.

Shekharjyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta, who were arrested on Thursday, were also due to perform at the festival.

The arrests came hours after the Assam Police charged Garg’s manager Siddhartha Sharma and North East India Festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita section pertaining to murder.

Sharma and Mahanta were arrested on Wednesday and remanded to 14 days’ police custody.

They were booked under sections of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita pertaining to criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and causing death by negligence.

On the same day, the Singapore Police Force told The Straits Times that it had sent the Indian High Commission a copy of Garg’s autopsy report and preliminary findings on his death.

The force, which comes under the country’s Ministry of Home Affairs, had earlier ruled out foul play, the newspaper reported.

A death certificate issued by the Singaporean authorities...

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