Zubeen Garg's cousin and Deputy Superintendent of Police Sandipan Garg, who has been arrested in connection with the singer's death in Singapore, has an engineering degree and had also participated in a beauty pageant.

The cousins were close and had a shared interest in music, police sources said.

Sandipan Garg, who is from the Jorhat district in Assam, studied civil engineering at the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST) in Arunachal Pradesh's Nirjuli.

Sandipan cracked the Assam Public Service Commission and became an Assam Police Service (APS) officer in the 2021-22 batch.

He was posted as a deputy superintendent of police in the Boko-Chaygaon co-district and has also served in the Nagaon district.

The sources said he was known to be soft-spoken and was close to Zubeen. He was a sportsman and also shared the singer's interest in music.

 Zubeen's death on September 19, Sandipan had asked the singer's manager, Siddhartha Sharma, to hand over all of his belongings to him so that he could take them back to Assam. Sharma, however, refused to give him the singer's phone.

Source:Ndtv