New Delhi: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday (August 28, 2022) stated that his authorities is ready to hand over the case of death of BJP chief Sonali Phogat to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), if required. Phogat, a BJP chief from Hisar in Haryana and contestant on the fact TV present “Big Boss”, was introduced useless to a hospital in North Goa on August 23.
Talking to reporters in Panaji, Sawant stated that Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has additionally spoken to him requesting for an in depth investigation into the case.
Sawant stated that his Haryana counterpart instructed him that the Phogat household needs the CBI to take over the case.Â
Sonali Phogat’s household had met Khattar in Chandigarh on Saturday.
“I don’t have any issue with it. After all formalities today, if required, will give this case to the CBI,” the Goa CM stated.
Sawant additionally stated that the Goa Police are totally investigating the case.
Earlier within the day, the Goa Police arrested another drug peddler in reference to the case of alleged homicide of Sonali Phogat. With this, 5 folks have up to now been arrested within the case.
On Saturday, the Anjuna police in North Goa district arrested drug peddler Rama alias Ramadas Mandrekar for allegedly supplying medication to one other peddler Dattaprasad Gaonkar, who’s already in custody in reference to the case.
Gaonkar had allegedly provided medication to two different accused Sudhir Sagwan and Sukhwinder Singh, who accompanied Phogat on the Goa journey.
The Goa Police on Saturday stated Phogat was given methamphetamine, a leisure drug, by her aides hours earlier than her death.
Edwin Nunes, the opposite arrested man, is the proprietor of the Curlies restaurant in North Goa the place Phogat and her aides had partied on the intervening evening of August 22 and 23.
While Singh and Sagwan are charged with homicide, Nunes and Gaonkar are booked below the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
An area courtroom on Saturday remanded Sagwan and Singh in police custody for 10 days.
Phogat was introduced useless to St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa district on August 23 morning from the resort the place she was staying. While docs stated Phogat had a coronary heart assault, her brother alleged that Sagwan and Singh, who had arrived in Goa along with her, had performed a task in her death.
(With company inputs)
