New Delhi: An Assam Police Special Investigation Team (SIT) has charged the manager-organiser of the Singapore festival, where Zubeen Garg was scheduled to perform, with his murder. The celebrity singer’s long-term manager Siddharth Sharma and his bandmates, co-singer Amritprava Mahanta and musician Shekhar Jyoti Goswami—all three of whom were visiting Singapore with him—have also been slapped with BNS Section 103 (murder).

Before Zubeen’s performance at Singapore’s Northeast Festival, organised by now-murder accused Shyamkanu Mahanta, he was on a yacht with his team when he allegedly went into the water for a swim and died. Since then, his unexpected death has fuelled waves of speculation and political upheaval in the north-eastern state.

On Friday, the SIT levelled murder charges in i

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