MUMBAI: The probe into the accidental death of the legendary singer-composer Zubeen Garg is picking up momentum. Recently, 5 of the 7 accused have been sent to judicial custody for 2 weeks.
Of these 5 accused, one is the late artiste’s manager, and his cousin. As per media reports, the accused Shyamkanu Mahanta, Siddharth Sharma, Sandipan Garg, Paresh Baishya and Nandeswar Bora were sent to judicial custody, following expiry of their police remand, by court of chief judicial magistrate of Kamrup Metropolitan district, Baloram Kshetri.
Mahanta is the organiser of the Singapore event, which the late singer had gone to attend, Siddharth Sharma is the manager and Sandipan, is also the cousin of the singer, and is also a police officer in the Assam state police. While Siddharth and Sandipan were present at the scene when Garg drowned, Mahanta was also in Singapore in connection with the event, but not present at the site of alleged crime when the incident happened.