Sonali Phogat death case: Two accused sent to 10-day police custody

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

Panaji, Aug 27: A court docket in Goa on Saturday remanded two accused – Sukhwinder Singh & Sudhir Sangwan – arrested within the homicide case of Bharatiya Janata Occasion chief Sonali Phogat in police custody for ten days. The incident passed off at Curlies Restaurant at Anjuna in North Goa district on the intervening night time of August 22 and 23.

A senior officer stated the court docket remanded the duo in police custody for ten days. Sagwan and Singh had accompanied Phogat, a preferred TikTok star who hailed from Haryana to Goa on August 22.

Phogat, 42, was introduced lifeless to St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa district on August 23 morning from her resort.

Sagwan and Singh confessed throughout questioning that they’d deliberately combined the substance in her drinks. The motive behind killing her may very well be some “financial curiosity,” the IGP stated.

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The 2 males had been seen taking Phogat to the washroom of the restaurant round 4.30 am on August 23 and the three of them had been contained in the washroom for 2 hours, he stated.

Earlier within the day, the Goa Police detained a North Goa restaurant proprietor and a suspected peddler, who had allegedly provided medication to the 2 accused arrested within the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) chief Sonali Phogat homicide case, a senior officer stated.

The suspected drug peddler, Dattaprasad Gaonkar, was detained from Anjuna after the accused duo “confessed” of their assertion that they’d procured medication from him, the officer stated.

One other man who has been detained is recognized as Edwin Nunes, the proprietor of Curlies restaurant, the place Phogat was partying late at night time on August 22 earlier than her dying below mysterious circumstances.

Phogat, 42, was introduced lifeless to St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa district on August 23 morning from her resort. The police on Friday stated Sagwan and Singh allegedly combined some “obnoxious substance” in water and compelled Phogat to drink it whereas partying at Curlies restaurant on the intervening night time of August 22 and 23, including they’ve been charged with homicide.

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The motive behind the alleged homicide of Phogat may very well be “financial curiosity”, a senior police officer had stated.