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, news agency PTI reported quoting a senior police officer.

On October 1, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the circumstances surrounding the death of cultural icon, took prime accused Shyamkanu Mahanta and Siddharth Sharma into 14-day custody. The custody was granted by the Magistrate after the accused, event organiser Mahanta and Garg’s long-time manager Sharma, were brought to his residence in Geetanagar, as courts remained closed due to Mahanabami.

Both are currently being interrogated at the Criminal Inv

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