India, Oct. 14 -- The Assam Police have arrested seven individuals, including a cousin and a senior police officer, on murder charges within a month after Assam's iconic singer Zubeen Garg died in mysterious circumstancesinSingapore.

The death, which was initially termed as drowning by the Singapore General Hospital, has morphed into a murder mystery. One of the arrested individuals, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami, during police interrogation, accused the chief organiser of the North East India Festival (NEIF), Singapore, Shyamkanu Mahanta, and Zubeen's secretary Siddharth Sharma of orchestrating the crime.

Zubeen died on September 19, before attending the NEIF. He was reportedly at a yacht party organised by a group of Assamese Non-Resident Ind...