The Special Investigation Team, probing the death of Zubeen Garg, charged four accused, including the singer's secretary Siddhartha Sharma and festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, with murder in the charge sheet filed in a court here on Friday.

Garg's band members, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta, have also been charged with murder.

Shyamkanu Mahanta was the chief organiser of the North East India Festival, to attend which Garg had gone to Singapore, where he died under mysterious circumstances while swimming in the sea on September 19.

Speaking to reporters after submission of the charge sheet, Special DGP (CID) M P Gupta, heading the SIT team, said that Garg's cousin and suspended Assam Police officer Sandipan Garg has been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to

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