Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday announced that the Gauhati High Court has approved the formation of a judicial commission headed by a sitting judge to probe the death of singer Zubeen Garg. The commission will be led by Justice Soumitra Saikia, with the formal notification expected on Saturday. Sarma urged anyone in possession of information or evidence related to the case to present it before the commission.

Zubeen Garg died on September 19 in Singapore, a day before his scheduled performance at the North East India Festival (NEIF), an event organised to promote the cultural heritage of the region. A second postmortem was conducted in Assam on September 23 after his body was brought back from Singapore, where the death certificate had listed drowning as the c

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