GUWAHATI, Dec 12: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday asserted that the promise made to the people of the state in connection with singer Zubeen Garg’s death has been fulfilled with the filing of the charge sheet by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) within the stipulated time frame.
“We had taken the responsibility of ensuring justice to Zubeen Garg and we fulfilled this with the SIT submitting the charge sheet within a record time in the court today,” Sarma said on the sidelines of a programme in Kokrajhar.
Some of the accused have been charged with murder, and “now I am sure that the court will conduct the trial and give necessary punishment to the accused”, he said.
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The SIT on Friday charged four of the seven accused with murder in its charge sheet filed in a Guwahati court.
“We all know that the court is impartial. Now, the entire responsibility lies with the court of law. We must all respect the process of the law,” Sarma said.
On the issue of hearing the case in a fast-track court, the CM said the government will have to talk with the chief justice in this matter.
“There is a procedure to be followed. The case will go from the CJM’s court to that of the sessions judge, and only after that, the issue of fast-track court and special prosecutor will come up,” he said.
Sarma had said earlier that the state government would request the Gauhati High Court to set up a fast-track court for hearing Garg’s death case.
The Assam cabinet had also decided to appoint a special public prosecutor on the recommendation of the advocate general, who will be engaged exclusively for the hearing of the case from the filing of the charge sheet to the delivery of justice. (PTI)
