The Special Investigation Team probing the death of Assamese singer Zubeen Garg has filed a first information report against Raijor Dal MLA Akhil Gogoi for allegedly circulating unverified details of the chargesheet in the case on social media, a police officer told Scroll.

Garg, a renowned Assamese singer, died on September 19 during a yacht trip in Singapore, a day before he was scheduled to perform at the North East India Festival there.

On December 12, the Special Investigation Team probing the matter filed a chargesheet in a Guwahati court, charging four out of the seven arrested persons with murder.

On Wednesday, Gogoi, who represents the Sivasagar Assembly constituency, shared on Facebook details of the charges against the seven persons accused in the matter.

He claimed this was part of the chargesheet submitted by the SIT.

“I have come to know that the government has filed a case against me for making the chargesheet related to Zubeen public,” Gogoi said on social media on Thursday. “I am severely ill. Even then, I will go to Guwahati tomorrow to face the case.”

The event where Garg was scheduled to perform had been organised by the Indian government and the Indian High Commission in Singapore, with support from the Assam Association and the North East India Association in the country.

A death certificate issued by the Singaporean authorities on September 20 stated the cause of Zubeen Garg’s death as drowning.

The Singapore Police Force had on October 17 said that it did not suspect foul play in the singer’s death following preliminary investigations into the matter.

It had added that the probe may take up to three more months to complete, following which the findings would be submitted to the State Coroner, a judicial officer, who would determine whether the matter required a Coroner’s Inquiry.

However, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has repeatedly claimed that Zubeen Garg’s death was not accidental but was a “plain and simple murder”.

The four persons who have been charged for murder are Shyamkanu Mahanta, who was the organiser of the North East India Festival, Zubeen Garg’s manager Siddharatha Sharma and two musicians who were with the singer on the yacht – Shekharjyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta.

Besides, Zubeen Garg’s cousin, Deputy Superintendent of Police Sandipan Garg, who had travelled with him to Singapore, has been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder, while two of the singer’s personal security officers have been accused of criminal breach of trust.

Munna Prasad Gupta, the chief of the SIT, had on December 12 said that the main chargesheet is about 2,500 pages. When combined with various additional documents, such as bank records, digital evidence and forensic reports, it adds up to approximately 12,000 pages, he added.

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