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Assamese actor Nishita Goswami and Zubeen Garg’s co-musician Shekhar Jyoti Goswami on Saturday appeared before the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police in connection with the probe into the death of the singer, Zubeen died on September 19 in Singapore.
According to reports, the CID has asked Nishita, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta to appear before them on Saturday in connection with the case.
The CID, Assam, has registered a case (no 18/2025) under Section 61(2)/105/106(1) of BNS, 2023, in connection with the suspicious death of Zubeen.
On Friday, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) and Crime Investigation Team (CID) of Assam conducted a raid at the residence of Shyamkanu Mahanta in Guwahati in connection with the case of Zubeen’s untimely death in Singapore.
Shyamkanu Mahanta was the main organiser of the North East India Festival, responsible for the participation of Zubeen in the festival.
A team of SIT and CID led by Rosie Kalita, Chief Investigation Officer of SIT, conducted a search operation at the house of Shyamkanu Mahanta in Guwahati.
On September 25, the SIT and CID teams conducted raids at the houses of Zubeen’s Manager, Siddharth Sharma, colleague-musician Sekhar Jyoti, and Shyamkanu. It seized several items, including a pendrive, a hard disk, a computer CPU, documents, and other items.
Zubeen died in Singapore on September 19 after an alleged drowning incident. His body was flown to the national capital, Delhi, and later transported to Assam on a commercial flight that landed in Guwahati on Sunday morning.
Zubeen was in Singapore for the Northeast India Festival.His final rites were carried out in the Kamarkuchi village of Assam on September 23, in the presence of hundreds of fans, his family members, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju and other political leaders. A gun salute was given to Zubeen at the crematorium.
