Guwahati: The SIT probing into the circumstances leading to Zubeen Garg's death informed a local court that Sekhar Jyoti Goswami, a musician with Zubeen's band and an eyewitness of the incident, claimed during interrogation that the iconic singer was poisoned by his manager Siddharth Sarma and Shyamkanu Mahanta, an Assam-based entrepreneur and organiser of Northeast Festival in Singapore.

Zubeen and some of his band members were in Singapore to perform in the festival but he died on September 19 while swimming in the sea.

Goswami and a female singer of Zubeen's band, Amrit Prabha Mahanta were arrested on Thursday (October 1) following questioning by the SIT. Mahanta and Sarma were also arrested and are in SIT remand.

The SIT said Sekhar claimed that a conspiracy was hatched to portray Z

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