Assam Police DSP suspended after arrest

Zubee Gare’s cousin and Assam Police DSP Sandipan Garg was apprehended Wednesday in connection with the singer's death in Singapore last month, taking the total number of arrests in the case to five, a senior officer said.

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‘The DSP was remanded to seven-day police custody by the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Kamrup Metropolitan district, he said. He was later in the evening suspended with immediate effect. A special investigation team under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Assam Police is probing into the singer's death.

The police will also issue fresh summonses to 10 people associated with the Assam Association Singapore, as they failed to appear before the investigating agency within the deadline of October 6. Two personal security officers (PSOs) of Zubeen Garg were also suspended, after police unearthed huge financial transactions, worth over %1.1 crore, from their accounts, the officer said. CID Special DGP Munna Prasad Gupta told PTI, “We have arrested Sandipan Garg. We are now completing the necessary legal formalities.”

The case was registered under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) like murder, culpable homicide not amounting to murder, criminal conspiracy and causing death by negligence.