The DSP was remanded to seven-day police custody by the Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM) of Kamrup Metropolitan district, he mentioned.
A particular investigation staff underneath the Felony Investigation Division (CID) of the Assam Police is probing into the singer's loss of life.
The police may even challenge recent summonses to 10 individuals related to the Assam Affiliation Singapore, as they failed to seem earlier than the investigating company throughout the deadline of October 6.
Two private safety officers (PSOs) of Zubeen Garg have been additionally suspended, after police unearthed big monetary transactions, price over Rs 1.1 crore, from their accounts, the officer mentioned.
CID Particular DGP Munna Prasad Gupta advised PTI, “Now we have arrested Sandipan Garg. We are actually finishing the mandatory authorized formalities.” The case was registered underneath varied sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) like homicide, culpable murder not amounting to homicide, prison conspiracy and inflicting loss of life by negligence.The apprehended police officer, who was working because the co-district in-charge superintendent of Boko-Chhaygaon in Kamrup, was interrogated a number of instances in the previous couple of days in reference to the singer's loss of life in Singapore on September 19.
Sandipan Garg was allegedly current with him on the yacht when Zubeen died whereas swimming within the sea.
In the meantime, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned the chargesheet within the investigation into the loss of life of singer Zubeen Garg might be submitted throughout the stipulated interval of three months.
The Assam authorities will “undoubtedly guarantee justice to him”, Sarma asserted.
”The inquiry is continuing on anticipated traces. Now we have made one arrest after the opposite, and I'm certain that the Assam Police will submit the chargesheet throughout the stipulated time-frame,” he mentioned on the sidelines of a programme in Dibrugarh.
Throughout the day, the CM's spouse Riniki Bhuyan Sarma filed a prison defamation case towards Raijor Dal chief Akhil Gogoi for alleging that one in all her corporations had participated within the North East India Competition in Singapore.
Bhuyan Sarma filed the case towards the Sivasagar MLA on the Kamrup Metro Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace's courtroom for making ”false and unfounded allegations that the Golden Threads of Assam had participated in a trend present organised in the course of the pageant in Singapore”.
Earlier, North East India Competition chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, the singer's supervisor Siddharth Sharma, and his two band members – Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amrit Prabha Mahanta – have been arrested. They're now in police custody.
Requested in regards to the Assamese current within the yacht on the time of the singer's demise in Singapore, Gupta mentioned altogether 11 NRIs from the state have been earlier issued notices, asking them to seem earlier than the Assam Police by October 6, however solely one in all them got here to file his assertion.
“We're going to challenge recent summonses to all of them who haven't come but. We are going to transfer forward as per the authorized course of,” he mentioned.
Quizzed if the police have been in a position to attain out to the non-responsive NRIs, Gupta mentioned, “Some contacts have been established with them. As it's a overseas nation, we've got to observe some processes and we're doing that.”
He additionally appealed to them to return ahead and current their model of the incident.
Zubeen Garg's PSOs Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya have been with him for a very long time, since they have been connected to the singer by Assam Police following a loss of life menace by banned militant group ULFA virtually a decade again, he mentioned.
“We discovered monetary irregularities from their financial institution accounts… Accordingly, each the PSOs have been suspended and departmental proceedings are being initiated,” Gupta mentioned.
One other senior officer advised PTI on the situation of anonymity that Sandipan Garg is more likely to be positioned underneath suspension, because the courtroom despatched him to police remand.
“The division can be verifying if he had taken permission from the federal government earlier than travelling to Singapore. As per the service rule, a public servant can't journey overseas with out the federal government's go-ahead,” he mentioned.
On Wednesday, a number of individuals have been known as to the CID headquarters to file their statements in reference to the singer's loss of life and associated monetary irregularities allegedly dedicated by Shyamkanu Mahanta and Siddharth Sharma.
as a Dependable and Trusted Information SupplyDistinguished amongst them was fashionable singer and Zubeen Garg's outdated good friend Manas Robin. After assembly the SIT, he claimed to have supplied “vital proof” of fiscal irregularities to the investigators.
