Haflong, Oct 13 (PTI) Singer Amritprava Mahanta, an accused in the Zubeen Garg death case, was released on bail from a jail in Assam’s Dima Hasao district on Tuesday.
Mahanta’s family received her as she stepped out of the Haflong sub-jail.
The Gauhati High Court granted Mahanta bail on October 9 against a bond of Rs 50,000 and two sureties of the same amount.
Mahanta was arrested in October last year in connection with the death case of Garg. She was lodged at the Haflong sub-jail, along with another accused, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami. The rest of the accused in the case are at Tamulpur jail.
Garg, a celebrated singer-songwriter, died under mysterious circumstances in Singapore on September 19 last year while swimming in the sea. He was in the country to attend the fourth edition of the North East India Festival (NEIF).
Besides Mahanta and Goswami, NEIF chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, the singer’s manager Siddharth Sharma, cousin and since-suspended Assam Police DSP Sandipan Garg, and personal security officers Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya are accused in the case.
The two PSOs had been granted bail in a disproportionate assets case in September, but remain in jail in connection with the artiste’s death case.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the CID probed Garg’s death case after more than 60 FIRs were lodged across the state.
It filed its chargesheet before a local court here in December, naming the seven accused. Four of them are facing murder charges.
An exclusive special fast-track sessions court here is hearing the case.
Singapore Police, which has carried out a separate probe, has concluded that there is no evidence of foul play.
A Coroner’s Court in Singapore had also said the popular Indian singer-songwriter was severely intoxicated and had drowned off Lazarus Island after declining a life jacket.
Authorities in Assam, however, maintained that it will not impact the case here in any manner.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had said in the state assembly that Garg’s death was a case of “plain and simple murder”. PTI COR SSG SSG SOM
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