Actor and BJP leader Sonali Phogat was forcibly drugged by her associates while partying at a restaurant in Goa, the police there have said, citing security camera footage and alleged confessions.
Police said that Sudhir Sangwan and Sukhwinder, associates of the Bigg Boss contestant Sonali Phogat, made the confession after sustained questioning in connection with the death.
Sonali Phogat, 42, had visited Curlie’s Restaurant on Monday night and was brought dead to the St Anthony Hospital in Anjuna in North Goa district from her hotel the next morning. While it was initially seen as a case of heart attack, her family sensed something amiss and demanded a thorough probe.
Police then filed a murder case and, in her post-mortem report yesterday, it came to light that “there are multiple blunt force injuries over the body”. The medical experts said police should need to investigate the cause of death.
