India, Feb. 27 -- The Assam cabinet on Thursday decided to approach the Gauhati High Court seeking day-to-day trial in the murder case of cultural icon Zubeen Garg who passed away in Singapore on September 19 last year while swimming in the sea.

North East India Festival (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta, the singer's manager Siddharth Sharma, his two band members Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amrit Prabha Mahanta, his cousin and Assam Police official Sandipan Garg, and his PSOs Nandeswar Bora and Prabin Baishya are in jail as accused in the case.

"The cabinet decided that the government should approach the Gauhati High Court seeking an exclusive court for day-to-day trial in the Zubeen Garg case. We will intimate the chief justice a...