Chaos broke out in Assam’s Baksa with a mob pelting stones at a convoy carrying five of the people arrested in connection with singer Zubeen Garg’s death. The convoy was taking them to the Baksa District Jail on Wednesday afternoon after a local court in Guwahati remanded them to judicial custody.

The five include two who have been named as the prime accused in the case: Northeast India Festival organizer Shyamkanu Mahanta and Garg’s manager Siddhartha Sharma, who had both been arrested on October 1.

The other three were Garg’s cousin, Assam Police Service Officer Sandipan Garg – who had accompanied him to Singapore and was with him on the yacht outing during which died, and who had been arrested on October 8 – and the two Personal Security Officers who had been attached to Garg – Nandes

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