Assam Congress demands CBI probe under high court judge into ‘suspicious’ death of Zubeen

Leader of Opposition in the Assam Assembly, Debabrata Saikia, has written to President Droupadi Murmu seeking her intervention for a CBI probe under the supervision of a sitting or retired judge of the Gauhati High Court into the sudden demise of Assam’s cultural icon, Zubeen Garg, in Singapore on September 19.

In his letter, Saikia expressed “serious concerns” over what he termed “suspicious circumstances” surrounding the singer’s death, alleging that the sequence of events pointed towards a conspiracy. He argued that while the Assam CID has been tasked with investigating the matter, the fact that the incident occurred in Singapore posed “serious jurisdictional limitations” that the state police cannot overcome without central support.

The Congress leader said Zubeen Garg was not only a