Sonali Phogat death case: Goa club owner, 'drug peddler' arrested following drug seizure

The Goa Police on Friday arrested two more people, including a club owner and a suspected drug dealer, in connection with the death of Haryana BJP leader Sonali Phogat.

Drugs have also been, reportedly, recovered by the cops from the club's washroom.

Phogat had visited Curlie's restaurant-cum-nightclub at Anjuna beach the night before her death.

Earlier, two of Phogat's associates, Sudhir Sangwan and Sukhwinder Singh were held in the case.

"The owner was arrested because drugs have been recovered from the club. He was arrested after questioning. The nature of the drugs seized is yet to be confirmed," the Goa Police told India Today.

The nature of the drugs, however, is yet to be ascertained.

The Goa Police said Phogat's drink was spiked by her associates Sangwan and Singh at Curlies and CCTV footage showed the BJP leader limping inside the pub, reported NDTV.

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The Tik Tok star-turned-politician was rushed to a hospital on Monday in North Goa where she was declared brought dead. The police had, initially, said that she appeared to have suffered a heart attack.

However, on Wednesday, Phogat’s brother Rinku Dhaka filed a complaint accusing her personal assistant Sangwan and his aide Singh of murdering her. On Thursday, the police filed a murder case.

The two murder accused confessed to having mixed an "obnoxious chemical” in Phogat's drink and they will be produced before a court soon, as per a statement by the Inspector General of Police Omvir Singh Bishnoi.

The incident took place at Curlies Restaurant at Anjuna in North Goa district between the night of August 22 and the early hours of August 23, said Singh.

Meanwhile, the doctor, who conducted the postmortem, reserved his opinion on the cause of her death pending chemical analysis. He had written that “multiple blunt force injuries” were found on Phogat’s body.

On Friday, Bishnoi said that those injuries could be abrasions that Phogat sustained while she was being taken to the hospital, PTI reported.