NEW DELHI: Assam Police on Thursday filed murder charges against late Assamese singer Zubeen Garg ’s long-time manager and the organiser of the festival in Singapore where he died, a senior officer said. Garg’s manager, Siddharth Sharma, and Shyamkanu Mahanta, the chief organiser of the North East India Festival, were arrested on Wednesday. Mahanta was apprehended at Delhi airport upon arrival from Singapore, while Sharma was taken into custody in Gurugram, Haryana. Both were flown under tight security to Guwahati, Assam, and a court remanded them to 14-day police custody. “The investigation is ongoing, and I cannot share much detail. We have added Section 103 of the BNS in the FIR now,” Munna Prasad Gupta, Special DGP of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police

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