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The Assam Police SIT on Thursday took into custody Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta, late singer Zubeen Garg’s bandmate and co-singer respectively, as the team investigates Garg’s death in Singapore. 

Earlier on Wednesday, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) team had arrested Garg's manager Siddharth Sharma, and North East India Festival manager, Shyamkanu Mahanta, and charged them with murder, culpable homicide not amounting to murder, criminal conspiracy, and causing death by negligence in connection with the death of Garg, 52, who was found floating face down in the sea after he went for a swim on September 19.

Source in the SIT say both Goswami and Mahanta were present on the yacht with Garg on the day of his death, and that videos showed Goswami swimming close to the singer while Mahanta recorded the entire incident on her cellphone. 

Both of them have been questioned over the past six days before a chief judicial magistrate sent them to a 14-day Criminal Investigation Department) custody on Friday.

 

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"The investigation is going on and I cannot share details at this time but we have added charges under Section 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita," said Munna Gupta, the Special Director General of Police of Assam's CID, who is heading the SIT. 

Gupta also shared the SIT team is awaiting approval to visit Singapore to collect evidence, “which may take some time”.

Meanwhile, Garima Garg, wife of Zubeen Garg, has said she has full faith in the judicial system and the investigative proceedings.

"The investigation is ongoing and they are handling it in their own way. Therefore, we should not comment on it right now. I do not have much knowledge about it, so the law will take its own course. I have full faith that we will receive justice through our legal system, and the investigation will be conducted properly. We will soon learn what really happened that day, and we want to know who is guilty of what. If anyone is responsible, they will be punished very soon," she told a news agency.