Sonali phogat murder

Panaji, August 27 The Goa Congress on Saturday demanded that the BJP leader Sonali Phogat death case be handed over to the CBI. Currently, the Goa Police are investigating the case. Calangute MLA Michael Lobo's reaction came after Goa police on Friday arrested Sudhir Sangwan (Phogat's PA) along with Sukwinder Singh in connection with the murder of Phogat, also a TikTok star. "I agree with Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who said that he is ready for a CBI inquiry in the matter. The crime may have happened in Anjuna (Goa), but the real story lies in Haryana," he said. Lobo said that though Goa police has made two arrests, but if anyone else is involved in the crime, he should be brought to book. "There is a need for a CBI probe. I don't think that Goa police will come to a final conclusion. The investigation cannot be conducted by police in Anjuna, who do not seem to know anything, Lobo said. "Also, there should be more investigation into whether the two men who were accompanying (her) are the two who have been accused or someone else committed the crime. All the angles need to be investigated. The reason for the crime lies in Haryana. It seems more people were involved. Let the investigation begin from Haryana," Lobo asserted. Such incidents, he said, bring a bad name to the state of Goa. "Police investigate the crimes and then it gets forgotten and then the investigation stops. But such cases need to be thoroughly investigated by the CBI. There is a need to in...

PANAJI: After initial reluctance, Goa police on Thursday registered a murder case in the death of Haryana BJP politician Sonali Phogat and have booked two persons, who had accompanied her to Goa. The murder case was registered after the postmortem revealed “multiple blunt force injuries” over Phogat’s body. She had died at Anjuna on Tuesday morning and the postmortem was conducted on Thursday, after her family finally gave their consent. “We have booked Phogat’s PA Sudhir Sangwan and her friend Sukhwinder in connection with the murder,” Anjuna PI Prashal Dessai said. Both have been detained and police are interrogating them. “It is an earmarked case. SP North will be personally monitoring the investigations,” DGP Jaspal Singh told TOI. However, the panel of Goa Medical College doctors who conducted the postmortem have reserved the cause of death. “The cause of death to the best of our knowledge and belief is reserved pending chemical analysis, histopathology and serological reports of the tissues preserved. However, there are multiple blunt force injuries over the body. In view of the above, the manner of death is for the investigating officer to ascertain,” the panel consisting of Dr Sunil Chimbolkar and Dr Mandar Kantak said. BJP leader Sonali Phogat's post-mortem report mentions 'multiple blunt force injuries on body': Official The post-mortem report of BJP leader Sonali Phogat, who died in Goa earlier this week, mentions "multiple blunt force injuries" on her body, new...

The Goa police team was accompanied by police personnel from the local police station in Gurugram, as well as four members of Goa Police Inspector Theron D'Costa and Sub-Inspector Francis Xavier searched the flat for five hours and found some documents, a passport, some jewellery, watches, a mobile phone, and around Rs 16,000 in cash. They found a white Tata Safari car parked in the basement of the society and checked that as well. It is the fifth day of the investigation by the Goa police in Haryana. The team had gone to Hisar on Wednesday, 31 August, and visited Phogat's farmhouse and house in Sant Nagar as part of the probe. Reports said that the Goa Police is assessing the property that is in her name and trying to see if there is a property angle involved in the case, as some of Phogat's family members have been demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into her death which is being treated as a murder case.

Chandigarh: The two men accused of rape and murder of BJP leader Sonali Phogat were arrested late this evening -- hours after the postmortem report revealed multiple bruises on her body. Her family claimed she was raped and killed by her employee and his friend. Here's your 10-Point cheatsheet in this big story: • Sudhir Sangwan, Sonali Phogat's personal assistant, and his friend Sukhwinder Wasi, who had accompanied Sonali Phogat to Goa, were arrested by the Goa police after a case was filed. • The postmortem report mentioned multiple bruises on her body, which the report described as "blunt force trauma". "There are multiple blunt force injuries over the body. In view of the above, the manner of death is for the investigating officer to ascertain," the report said. • The report, however, did not mention any cause of death. Several tests, including chemical analysis of tissues, are pending. "In view of the above, the manner of death is for the investigating officer to ascertain," it added. • The family has claimed that Sudhir Sangwan had raped her earlier as well. Sonali Phogat had complained to her mother about her personal assistant, they said. • "She said Sangwan had given her food laced with some intoxicant, raped her and made a video," read her brother Rinku Dhaka's complaint to the police. Sudhir Sangwan had threatened to release the video on social media, the complaint read. • Sonali Phogat, who first found fame on TikTok,died on Tuesday in Goa, where she had gone w...

In a big lead in BJP leader Sonali Phogat murder case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has gathered evidence from the Curlies restaurant in Goa where Sonali Phogat was allegedly "drugged". Earlier on Sunday, a CBI team along with Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) experts arrived at the restaurant to probe the incident when Phogat was forced to drink a liquid mixed with "noxious" chemical while partying on the intervening night of August 22 and 23. According to Republic TV sources, the investigation agency will also record the statements of accused Sudhir and Sukhwinder on Monday. Along with this, two teams have been constituted to re-create the crime scene to proceed with the investigation. Meanwhile, a reminder has also been sent to Chandigarh CSFL to submit Sonali Phogat's Viscera report as early as possible. Notably, the CBI officials with forensic experts on Saturday conducted an investigation for nearly ten long hours at the Grand Leone Hotel in Goa to collect the evidence from the rooms in which Phogat, prime suspect Sudhir Sangwan and Sukhwinder, had stayed during their visit to Goa. The rooms of Grand Leone Hotel were already sealed by the Goa police. Sonali Phogat's death case Sonali Phogat (43) reportedly died in Goa last month under suspicious circumstances, following which her death was being treated as a case of murder. She was taken to St. Anthony's Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa on August 22, where she was declared brought dead. Initially...

By Md Hizbullah, Arvind Ojha: Scarlett Keeling, Denyse Sweeney, Danielle McLaughlin and Sonali Phogat. The tragic deaths of these women over a decade-and-a-half are tied to one location: Goa. British teenager Keeling was raped and killed in 2008, her bruised body found on Anjuna beach. Sweeney, 34, from Derby was found in a “distressed state” outside a bar on Vagator beach and declared dead on arrival at hospital. Her family alleged she was murdered. Irish-British national McLaughlin, 28, was found murdered on a field near resorts in Canacona in 2017. An India Today investigation into Phogat’s death, now treated as a murder case by the local police, indicates not much has changed in Goa all these years. India Today Special Investigation | Death,Drugs and Dhoka: The doctor who conducted the autopsy in Goa makes some stunning revelations. ( With easy availability of drugs, peddlers roaming freely on its beaches and weak enforcement, the tourist mecca seems to be struggling with crimes, which, in many instances, could be overlooked and under-reported. COMPLAINTS OVERLOOKED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT Patrick Savio Almeida, the head of Anjuna panchayat from 2012 till August 12 this year, told India Today’s Special Investigation Team that Curlies, for instance, continued to operate as a haven for drug consumption despite formal complaints about substance abuse taking place on its property. ALSO READ | “Even I received so many complaints that its waiters sold drugs to young people. Why t...

New Delhi: Accused Sudhir Sangwan and his associate Sukhwinder Singh have confessed that they intentionally mixed an obnoxious chemical into a liquid and made deceased BJP leader Sonali Phogat drink it, the Goa Police informed on Friday. "On the basis of CCTV footage, it was seen that accused Sudhir Sangwan & his associate Sukhwinder Singh were partying with the deceased at a club. A video establishes that one of them forcefully made the victim consume a substance," IGP Omvir Singh Bishnoi said, as quoted by news agency ANI. When confronted, Sukhwinder & Sudhir confessed that they intentionally mixed an obnoxious chemical into a liquid and made the victim drink it, the IGP informed. "Both accused established in preliminary investigation and they've been arrested. Further investigation is underway. An expert of FSL has been called. For further interrogation, the accused will be sent with a team to various locations to get further evidence," the officer said, as quoted by ANI The two associates of the BJP leader from Haryana were questioned overnight by Goa Police in connection with her alleged murder, an official informed news agency PTI on Friday. ALSO READ | Sudhir Sagwan and Sukhwinder Wasi, whose names figure as accused in the First Information Report (FIR) for murder, were detained but not arrested. Both were questioned overnight, said inspector Prashal PN Desai of Anjuna police station in North Goa district, as per OTI. Anjuna police added the murder charge to the cas...