Zubeen Garg death: SIT raids manager`s home; family away since singer`s death

Singer Zubeen Garg`s tragic death has left his fans and the state of Assam heartbroken. Days after the singer`s death, a Special Investigation Team (SIT), which has been formed to probe into the case, on Thursday raided his manager Siddharth Sharma`s residence in Guwahati`s Datalpara. 

SIT raids Zubeen Garg`s manager`s house

According to an India Today report, CID officials arrived at the premises located in Guwahati`s Datalpara on Thursday morning and remained stationed outside the three-storey building for nearly two hours before starting the search. When the team reached Sharma`s flat, they found the home locked. They eventually broke the lock, and a search was conducted by the team.

#WATCH | Special Investigation Team (SIT) and CID team of Assam today conducted a raid at the residence of Shyamkanu Mahanta in Guwahati, who was the main organiser of North East India Festival in Singapore and who took singer Zubeen Garg to participate in the festival.

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The search was reportedly conducted in the presence of a magistrate, targeting Flat 3A, a 3BHK unit on the third floor. Sharma and his family have been living at the property since 2019. The residents of the building shared that Siddharth and his family had not been seen since the day Zubeen died.

For the unversed, the Assam government has formed a 10-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Special DGP MP Gupta, which will investigate the singer`s death. SIT also reportedly conducted searches at chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta`s residence earlier. Notably, the raid comes a day after the Assam government banned Mahanta from hosting any function or event.

People hurl stones at the SIT and police personnel

A group of people, which had gathered outside the residence of singer Zubeen Garg`s manager, hurled stones at police vehicles, following which the security personnel baton-charged them on Thursday, officials said. The angry protestors were demanding his immediate arrest for being allegedly responsible for the singer`s death.

They also tried to break open the main entrance gate to the apartment block premises but a heavy deployment of police force prevented them. When the SIT team left the compound, the protestors hurled stones at the vehicles and prevented them from leaving and some attacked the police personnel on duty at the gate.

The police resorted to a mild lathi-charge to disperse the crowd so that the police vehicles could move out of the area.

(With inputs from PTI)