Garg (52) had died mysteriously on September 19 while swimming in the sea in Singapore. He travelled to the country to perform at the 4th North East India Festival (NEIF).Later, the SIT arrested seven persons – NEIF organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, Garg’s manager Siddharth Sharma, DSP cousin Sandipan Garg, personal security officers Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya, bandmate Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and singer Amritprabha Mahanta. Last week, the Assam Special Investigation Team filed the charge sheet in the high-profile case in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (Metro), slapping the charge of murder against Shyamkanu, Siddharth, Shekhar and Amritprabha. The over 12,000-page charge sheet was prepared after nearly three months of investigation during which the SIT visited Singapore and recorded the statements of more than 300 people, including a few Singapore-based Assamese expats, in Guwahati.
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