‘Jabo de, Jabo de’: Bandmate Shekhar Jyoti Goswami recalls Zubeen Garg’s final moments, alleges he was gasping, frothing at mouth

GUWAHATI: “During Zubeen Garg’s final moments, when he was gasping for breath and frothing at the mouth and nose, Siddharth Sharma dismissed the symptoms as ‘acid reflux’ and was heard shouting, ‘Jabo de, jabo de’ (let him go, let him go),” alleged Shekhar Jyoti Goswami, the singer’s bandmate. Goswami added that Garg, an expert swimmer who had trained both him and Sharma, could not have drowned accidentally. Following this account, Garg's long-time manager, Siddharth Sharma, was arrested by the SIT on October 1 on charges of criminal conspiracy, murder, and culpable homicide not amounting to murder, after key witnesses alleged that the singer had been "poisoned." The 52-year-old singer died under mysterious circumstances on September 19 while swimming off Singapore’s Lazarus I