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Garg, a celebrated singer-songwriter, died under mysterious circumstances in Singapore on September 19 last year while swimming in the sea. He was in the island country to attend the fourth edition of the North East India Festival .

He had urged the chief minister to allow the democratic protest.

As more than 100 people from different parties and organisations gathered in front of the secretariat, the police prevented them from staging any demonstration.

The protesters were taken away in buses, even as they raised slogans and displayed placards with 'Justice for Zubeen Garg' written on them.

Last week, Gogoi had called for a meeting at the Zubeen Kshetra, the cremation ground of Garg on the outskirts of Guwahati.

It was also decided to pursue legal measures to challenge the bail granted to the accused and to continue the public movement.

The SIT filed its charge sheet before a local court here in December last year, naming the seven accused. Four of them are facing murder charges.

NEIF chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, the singer's manager Siddharth Sharma, band members Amritprava Mahanta and Shekhar Jyoti Goswami, his cousin and suspended DSP Sandipon Garg, and personal security officers Nandeswar Bora and Paresh Baishya have been named in the charge sheet.

Amritprava and Sandipon have secured bail from the Gauhati High Court, and both have since been released from judicial custody.

The Assam government said it will move the Supreme Court challenging the high court's decision to grant the bail.

Morigaon-based lawyer Ratul Bora, who had filed the first police complaint following Garg's death in Singapore, said he would also move the top court challenging the HC's bail orders.

The two PSOs had been granted bail in a disproportionate assets case in September, but remain in jail in connection with the singer's death case.

The Singapore Police carried out a separate probe and concluded that there was no evidence of foul play.

A court in Singapore had also said the popular Indian singer-songwriter was severely intoxicated and had drowned off Lazarus Island after declining to wear a life jacket.

The authorities in Assam, however, maintained that the findings of the Singapore Police probe will not impact the case here.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had, in the state assembly, said that Garg's death was a case of "plain and simple murder".

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