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CBI Action in Sonali Phogat Murder Case: A CBI team reached Goa from Delhi on Friday to investigate the murder case of Haryana BJP leader Sonali Phogat. Last month, Sonali Phogat died under mysterious circumstances. A senior official said the CBI team would visit Anjuna police station and other places related to the case in North Goa.
The Goa Police has so far arrested five people in the case. Two people have been arrested for murder while three others have been arrested under the NDPS Act related to Narcotics. The police officer said that all the documents related to the case will be handed over to the CBI.
According to officials, Phogat, a resident of Hisar in Haryana, was brought dead in a hospital in Goa on the intervening night of August 22-23. Earlier, he had a long party at Curlies restaurant located on Anjuna Beach. The CBI has taken over the investigation in the case and has re-registered the FIR of Goa Police. Officials said on Thursday that the CBI has re-registered the FIR of Goa Police on a reference from the Ministry of Home Affairs.
CBI team took this action as soon as it reached Goa
CBI team has reached Goa with CFSL experts. The CBI team first reached the Anjuna police station in Goa, where they met the investigating officer, took the case diary and recorded the statements of the policemen who were the first to reach the spot.
The CBI team took all the videos and photos from the Goa Police which were made by the Goa Police during the investigation at that time. The CBI team has also taken Sonali Phogat’s postmortem report and forensic report from Goa Police. The CBI will talk to the doctors who examined Sonali Phogat after she was brought to the hospital. Goa Police is yet to ascertain the motive behind Sonali Phogat’s murder and the biggest challenge before the CBI is to find it out.
CM Sawant had demanded a CBI inquiry
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had written a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah requesting a CBI probe into Phogat’s death, following which the ministry sent the matter to the CBI. An official privy to the development said that the Home Ministry had asked the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to get the matter probed by the CBI. CBI works under the administrative control of DoPT.
Sonali Phogat was given this drug
43-year-old Phogat was declared brought dead at a hospital in Goa on the intervening night of August 22-23. Phogat had reached Goa a day before the incident with two of her male colleagues – Sudhir Sangwan and Sukhwinder Singh. She was seen dancing with Sangwan in the CCTV footage of the restaurant that surfaced after his death.
In the CCTV footage, the aide can also be seen purportedly forcing them to drink water which she spits up immediately. In another video, Phogat is seen being taken out of the restaurant by his associates.
The five people arrested by Goa Police in this case include Sudhir Sangwan and Sukhwinder Singh, two of Phogat’s associates, Dattaprasad Gaonkar, who had allegedly supplied narcotics to Sagwan and Singh and both of them Phogat was given Deputy Superintendent of Police Jeevba Dalvi had said that Phogat was given methamphetamine and some quantity of it was recovered from the restaurant’s toilet.
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