A local court in Guwahati on Wednesday sent Sandipan Garg, an APS officer, arrested by the Special Investigation Team of Assam Police in connection with the singer Zubeen Garg's death case, to seven days' police custody.
Shyamkanu Mahanta, organiser of the Northeast India Festival, who was arrested in connection with the death case of singer Zubeen Garg, has approached the Supreme Court seeking transfer of the investigation from Assam Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) to a central agency such as t
He further sought direction to appoint a retired Supreme Court judge to monitor and supervise the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the singer's death.
The Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court, Guwahati, on Friday sent Zubeen Garg's co-musician Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and co-singer Amritprava Mahanta on 14 days' police custody in connection with Zubeen Garg's death case.
According to officials, a case initially reported as a suspicious death in Mandikonduru village of Guntur district has been confirmed as murder following a police investigation.
Both Mahanta and Sharma have been directed to appear before the CID office in Guwahati by October 6. Sarma warned that if they fail to comply, Assam Police will take necessary steps to bring them back to the state.
In order to gather leads to locate and apprehend both the accused Sanjit Singh Mavai and Uttam Singh Kushwaha, and to motivate the general public to provide credible information about the accused persons, a cash reward of Rs. 2 lakh against each of them has been declared by CBI.
Nearly five years after the suspicious death of a 23-year-old auto driver, Vivek Kumar, a Delhi court has ordered the registration of an FIR, pulling up the police for failing to act earlier.