India, Nov. 7 -- Assam chief information commissioner (CIC) Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta resigned from his post on Thursday over his brother's name coming up in the death probe of state icon Zubeen Garg.

Mahanta, a former Director General of Assam Police, made the announcement in a post on Facebook. "I have decided to resign from the post of CIC due to a special circumstance. You are all aware that my brother Shyamkanu Mahanta's name has got involved in the death of our beloved artist Zubeen Garg," Mahanta said in the post.

Following Zubeen's suspicious death in Singapore on September 19 while swimming in the sea, Assam Police is conducting a murder investigation and Mahanta's younger brother, Shyamkanu, is one of the seven people arrested by ...