Shyamkanu Mahanta and Siddhartha Sharma were among the four accused charged with murder in the chargesheet filed on Friday by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing into the death of singer Zubeen Garg.
The accused also include Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta.
Shyamkanu Mahanta was the chief organiser of the North East India Festival, which was attended by Garg in Singapore, where he died under mysterious circumstances while swimming in the sea on September 19.
Garg’s cousin and suspended Assam Police officer Sandipan Garg has been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the chargsheet submitted at the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court earlier in the day, lawyers said.
Sharma was the singer’s secretary, while Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta were members of Garg’s band.
The singer’s two personal security officers (PSOs) Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya have been charged under Section 31c of the BNS, which deals with criminal breach of trust by misappropriating funds or property entrusted to them, the lawyers said.
The Assam government had constituted the SIT, led by Special DGP M P Gupta, to investigate into the singer’s death.