The Assam Police on Wednesday arrested Zubeen Garg’s cousin, Deputy Superintendent of Police Sandipan Garg, who had travelled with him to Singapore, where the singer drowned during a yacht trip, reported The Indian Express.

Sandipan Garg is the fifth person to be arrested in the investigation being conducted into the singer’s death.

He was produced in a local court and remanded to 14 days’ police custody, NDTV reported.

Zubeen Garg, a popular Assamese singer, died on September 19, a day before he was scheduled to perform at the North East India Festival in Singapore.

The event 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.

Police officials said Sandipan Garg was arrested after being questioned for five days, NDTV reported. He had accompanied the singer on the yacht trip and had also brought back some of Zubeen Garg’s belongings to India after his death.

On October 3, the police arrested two musicians, Shekharjyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta, who had travelled with Zubeen Garg to Singapore and were scheduled to perform at the festival as well.

Earlier that day, the police had charged Zubeen Garg’s manager, Siddharatha Sharma, and North East India Festival organiser, Shyamkanu Mahanta, under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita section pertaining to murder.

Sharma and Mahant were arrested on October 1 and remanded to 14 days’ police custody.

They were earlier booked under sections of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita pertaining to criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide not amounting to murder, and causing death by negligence.

On the same day they were arrested, the Singapore Police Force told The Straits Times that it had sent the Indian High Commission a copy of Garg’s autopsy report and preliminary findings on his death.

The force, which comes under the country’s Ministry of Home Affairs, had earlier ruled out foul play.

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

However, more than 50 first information reports were filed against Sharma and Mahanta after his death.

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