Zubeen Garg’s cousin and Assam police DSP Sandipan Garg was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the singer’s death in Singapore last month, a senior officer said. The DSP was remanded in seven-day police custody by the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Kamrup Metropolitan district, he said.

According to the state police, the case was registered under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including murder, culpable homicide not amounting to murder and causing death by negligence. The singer drowned while swimming in the sea in Singapore on September 19. His cousin Sandipan was present with him on a yacht when the incident took place.