Phogat death: Mapusa court grants bail to 2 held in case

Times of India | 11 hours ago | 20-09-2022 | 04:42 am

Panaji: A Mapusa court on Monday granted conditional bail to two persons who were arrested in a narcotics case connected to the Sonali Phogat case — room boy Dattaprasad Gaonkar and alleged drug peddler Rama Mandrekar. Earlier, the court had granted conditional bail to Edwin Nunes, who ran and managed Curlie’s, the shack at the centre of the Phogat murder case.Anjuna PI Prashal Dessai said that the bail was granted by the additional sessions court, Mapusa.In the aftermath of Phogat’s death, Anjuna police had registered a separate case against four persons. Three of these were arrested, but Anjuna police are yet to arrest Sudhir Sangvan and Sukhwinder Singh — who were arrested in the murder case — in the narcotics case.While Nunes was arrested after meth was found in a Curlie’s toilet, Gaonkar allegedly supplied the drugs to the two main accused, while Mandrekar supplied the drugs to Gaonkar. Anjuna police approached the high court of Bombay at Goa challenging the sessions court order granting judicial custody to the three accused arrested in the narcotics case. The Anjuna PI said that the case is pending in the high court.Phogat arrived in Goa on August 22 with Sangwan and Singh. They allegedly purchased a narcotic substance at the hotel and consumed them before they went to Curlie’s to party.At Curlie’s, Phogat started feeling uneasy, and she later returned to the hotel along with the accused. Initially she was reluctant to go to the hospital, but as her health started deteriorating, she was shifted to the hospital where she was declared brought dead.The CBI on Sunday recreated the scene of the crime at Curlie’s, where Phogat was allegedly drugged, and at the Leoney Grand Resort, in Vagator, where the TikTok star had stayed with her aides after arriving in Goa.The CBI constituted two teams and placed one at the resort and one at Curlie’s to recreate the scene of crime. The investigating agency took a video and photos of the crime scene. The team included forensic experts.

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