Former Assam Director General of Police (DGP) Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta – who is the elder brother of Shyamkanu Mahanta, one of the men arrested in connection with the death of superstar Zubeen Garg – has resigned from his position as the state’s Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), citing “moral grounds” after the commission received RTI applications on Shyamkanu’s activities.

Bhaskar had been appointed to the position of CIC in 2023 following his retirement earlier that year from the police services after serving as the Assam DGP. He confirmed to The Indian Express that he submitted his resignation letter to the Raj Bhawan on Wednesday.

His brother Shyamkanu was the organiser of the North East India Festival Singapore, for which Zubeen had travelled to that country as its ‘cul

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