A day after late singer Zubeen Garg’s manager Siddhartha Sharma and North East India Festival organizer Shyamkanu Mahanta were arrested and brought to Guwahati, the Assam Police Thursday added the murder charge to the CID case in connection with the probe into Garg’s death, a senior police officer said.

Mahanta and Sharma were arrested from the Delhi airport and Gurgaon, respectively, by the Assam Police. They had been sent to 14-day police custody. The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which was formed to investigate Garg’s death, is interrogating the accused.

On Thursday, CID Special DGP M P Gupta, who is heading the SIT, said that Section 103 of the BNS, which pertains to murder, has been added to the case. “Both are being interrogated since Wednesday. Section 103 has been added to

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