A fresh autopsy of popular singer Zubeen Garg will be conducted at Guwahati Medical College on Tuesday morning as part of the probe into his sudden death, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

The Chief Minister told reporters that the step was taken following public demand to ensure full transparency. The procedure will be supervised by a team from AIIMS Guwahati.

Zubeen’s body will be brought for the post-mortem at 7 am and taken back around 9 am for the funeral procession. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju will attend the cremation on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Assam government has also acquired 10 bighas of land in Kamarkuchi to set up a memorial in honour of the late singer, Minister Keshab Mahanta said.

How he died
Zubeen, 52, died on September 19 in Singapore. Initial reports claimed he drowned while scuba diving, but Assam CM Sarma said he drowned while swimming in the sea without a life jacket.

A video showed him jumping into the sea with a life jacket, but later he was found unresponsive and was declared dead at Singapore General Hospital.

The organisers of the North East India Festival, which Zubeen had travelled to attend, said they were unaware of his yacht trip before the incident.

Zubeen Garg, best known for his hit Bollywood song Ya Ali and numerous Assamese films and albums, was regarded as one of Assam’s greatest cultural icons.

Source: NDTV