GUWAHATI: Popular Assamese and Bollywood singer Zubeen Garg has been sentenced to jail for three months, with a penalty of five thousand, in an assault case on Friday.
The ‘Gangster’ fame singer was arrested pertaining to a 2013 case, where he had allegedly slapped the son of an advocate, named Arup Borbora, for smoking in public.
Speaking on the same, his advocate Junmoni Devi told ANI, “This case was filed under three IPC sections- 323, 341 and 506. He has been proved not guilty under section 341; he has been sentenced to three months jail and penalty of 5000 rupees under sections 323 and 506. We have accepted the judgment with respect and have planned to appeal before the Higher Court, which is, Sessions Judge Court.”
The singer is no stranger to controversy. Earlier this year, Zubeen Garg had to apologise a day after he ticked off an Army officer at the New Delhi airport for objecting to his wearing an Army cap with the force’s insignia on it.
The officer, a major stationed at Tenga in Arunachal Pradesh, asked the singer to remove the Army cap as it was illegal for a civilian to wear a military outfit. Garg said he told the officer: “You are a major, but I am a colonel and you should salute me.” The singer played the role of a colonel in the Assamese movie Mission China, which was released recently.
Taking strong exception to Garg’s utterances, Bikash Kumar Das, a retired Indian Air Force sergeant from Assam, had written to defence minister Nirmala Sitaraman demanding action against the singer.
(With Express News Service inputs)