Lathi-charge as protesters attack vehicles in Zubeen death case

Violence broke out and chaos prevailed in Assam’s Baksa on Wednesday when an angry mob resorted to stone pelting on a convoy of police carrying five of the people arrested in connection with singer Zubeen Garg’s death. 

The convoy was taking them to the newly inaugurated 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 deceased singer’s manager Siddhartha Sharma, who had both been arrested on



October 1.

The other three were Mr Garg’s cousin, Assam Police Service Officer Sandipan Garg – who had accompanied him to Singapore and was with him on the yacht outing, and who had been arrested on October 8 – and the two Personal Security Officers who had been attached to Mr Garg – Nandeswar Bora and Paresh Baishya – who had been arrested on October 10. 

As police vehicles carrying the accused reached the jail premises, a large crowd demanding justice for Zubeen Garg gathered and began pelting stones at the convoy. Several vehicles, including a police van, were badly damaged in the attack.