As the Centre granted legal approval under Section 208 of BNSS to proceed with the case related to the late singer Zubeen Garg’s death in Singapore, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) Head & Special DGP-CID Munna Prasad Gupta explained how the sanction will enable prosecution against the accused persons.

“If any offence happens outside India and if any Indian citizen is involved in that offence, then to start a prosecution against such a person, the prosecution sanction of the Government of India is mandatory under Section 208 of BNSS,” he said.

“Today, we have received the sanction from the Union Home Ministry. Without the prosecution sanction of the Central government, we cannot launch prosecution against any person, any Indian citizen, if the incident had happened abroad. Since in t

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