, Oct. 4 -- In a dramatic twist to the probe into the death of Assamese music icon Zubeen Garg, his bandmate Shekhar Jyoti Goswami has alleged that the singer's manager Siddharth Sharma and festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta may have poisoned him and tried to pass off his death as accidental.

According to statements recorded under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), Goswami told investigators that Sharma behaved suspiciously in the hours before Garg's death in Singapore. Sharma, named in the FIR, faces serious non-bailable charges including criminal conspiracy, murder, and culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Goswami claimed that during the yacht trip where the incident occurred, Sharma took control of the vessel and ...