Four more Assamese NRIs living in Singapore appeared before the Assam Police in Guwahati on Monday in response to the summons sent to them by the team investigating the death of singer Zubeen Garg. Garg died at the age of 52 in Singapore on September 19. He was in the country as a cultural brand ambassador for the North East India Festival that was scheduled to take place on September 20 and 21 in Singapore. Before the festival began, on September 19, Garg went on a yacht outing, which he was reportedly taken on by members of the Assam Association Singapore. During the outing, he went swimming, lost consciousness and died. The Assam Police’s Special Investigation Team probing the matter has summoned a total of 11 Assamese living in Singapore to report before it. Last week, one of them, Rupkamal Kalita, had reported to the SIT, which recorded his statements and allowed him to return. On Monday, four more people — Jiolangsat Narzary, Parikshit Sharma, Siddhartha Bora and Bhaskar Jyoti Dutta — arrived in Guwahati and reported to the police. Confirming this, Crime Investigation Department Special DGP M P Gupta, who heads the SIT, said that he expected the remaining NRIs to also report before them over the course of the next few days. He said that the SIT has received the viscera report from the Central Forensic Laboratory (CFL), Delhi, which was sought after a second autopsy was conducted on Garg in Assam. He said the SIT would submit its findings before court. “We are working day and night to submit the chargesheet before the court within the legally stipulated period… We have sought permission from the Singapore authorities for the Assam Police to go and investigate there. The moment that approval comes, we will go there. They are conducting their own investigation and have sought some information from us that we are providing to them,” he said.
