North East India Pageant (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and Zubeen Garg’s supervisor Siddhartha Sharma have been arrested in reference to the singer’s demise in Singapore, police mentioned on Wednesday.
Mahanta was arrested on his arrival on the Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport in New Delhi from Singapore whereas Sharma was arrested from an condo in Gurugram.
The duo was delivered to Guwahati early on Wednesday morning, a senior police official informed PTI. The Assam authorities had constituted a 10-member SIT, led by Particular DGP M P Gupta, to research the singer’s demise in Singapore as a consequence of drowning within the sea on September 19. The SIT issued notices to a number of individuals, together with Mahanta, Sharma and members of Singapore Assam Affiliation and those that had gone to Singapore for the competition to seem earlier than it and report their statements.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had mentioned earlier {that a} ‘lookout discover’ by the Interpol had been issued in opposition to Mahanta and Sharma, asking them to seem earlier than the CID by October 6.
