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Sonali Phogat death: Goa club owner, drug dealer arrested

Sonali Phogat death: Goa club owner  drug dealer arrested
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Sunday, 28 August 2022 (13:59 IST)
Panaji: Goa police has arrested one more person in connection with the Sonali Phogat murder case, taking the number of persons arrested so far to five.

Drug peddler Rama alias Ramadas Mandrekar was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly supplying drugs to Dattaprasad Gaonkar, who was arrested earlier, a senior police official said.

Those who have been arrested till date are Sudhir Sagwan, Sukhwinder Wasi, Edwin Nunes, Dattaprasad Gaonkar and Ramadas Mandrekar.

BJP leader and actor Sonali, who hailed from Hisar in Haryana, was brought dead to a private hospital in Anjuna on August 23. Though initially it was reported that Sonali had died of heart attack but the postmortem conducted later revealed that there were multiple blunt injuries on her body.

Meanwhile, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday said, if required, the case would be handed over to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

He said Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had spoken to him and requested that the case be given to the CBI. "I don't have issue with it. After all the formalities, if required, will give the case to the CBI," Dr Sawant said. (UNI)

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