Violent protests erupted outdoors Baksa District Jail in Assam’s Baksa on Wednesday when the 5 folks arrested in reference to the dying of singer Zubeen Garg in Singapore final month had been being despatched to judicial custody after their police remand ended.
North East India Pageant (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, Zubeen’s supervisor Siddhartha Sharma, his cousin and police officer Sandipan Garg and his private safety officers (PSOs) Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya had been remanded to judicial custody by the Kamrup Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace.
The court docket, expressing concern for his or her security, additionally dominated that they need to be despatched to a jail with fewer prisoners. Accordingly, the authorities determined to shift all 5 accused to Baksa Jail at Mussalpur, which was inaugurated two months in the past, and there are nonetheless no prisoners.
Nevertheless, demanding justice for Zubeen Garg, a lot of folks gathered close to Baksa district jail, and a few amongst them began pelted stones focusing on the automobiles carrying the accused individuals to the jail.
Mahanta and Sharma had been arrested on October 1 in Delhi in reference to the singer’s dying in Singapore final month and had been booked beneath varied sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for culpable murder not amounting to homicide, prison conspiracy and inflicting dying by negligence, with homicide costs added later.
The duo got police custody for 14 days, which ended on Tuesday.
Zubeen Garg’s cousin and Assam Police DSP Sandipan Garg was arrested on October 8 and remanded to seven days of police custody.
Serving because the in-charge of the co-district superintendent of police of Boko-Chaygaon in Kamrup district, Sandipan was suspended from workplace on the day of his arrest.
The police officer had accompanied the singer to Singapore and was current on the yacht throughout Zubeen’s final moments.
The singer’s two PSOs had been arrested on October 10 and had been remanded to five-day police custody.
Two others – Zubeen’s band members Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and singer Amritprava Mahanta – had been arrested on October 3 and remanded to 14-day police custody.
The CID has additionally initiated a separate probe in opposition to Mahanta for alleged organised monetary crimes and “buying big quantities of ‘benami’ properties by cash laundering”.
The Assam authorities had constituted a 10-member SIT to research the singer’s dying in Singapore as a consequence of drowning within the sea on September 19.
Greater than 60 FIRs had been filed throughout the state in opposition to Mahanta, Sharma and several other others, following which the chief minister had directed the DGP to switch all of the FIRs to the CID and to register a consolidated case for a radical investigation.
