On Friday, the Goa Police informed that BJP leader Sonali Phogat was forcefully drugged at a party by two associates who are now arrested after being named as accused in the case related to her death.
- The 42-year-old was brought dead to the St. Anthony's Hospital on August 23. Doctors had said prima facie she died of a heart attack.
"On the basis of the CCTV footage, it was seen that the accused Sudhir Sangwan and 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," Omvir Singh Bishnoi, Inspector General of Police said.
The accused Sudhir Sangwan and Sukhwinder Singh had travelled to Goa along with Phogat on August 22.
"When confronted, Sukhwinder and Sudhir confessed that they intentionally mixed an obnoxious chemical into a liquid and made the victim drink it," IGP Bishnoi added.
The police however said that the exact cause of her death will only be confirmed after tests by experts at forensic science. The police have registered a murder case against the two accused.
Meanwhile, Phogat's last rites were conducted on Friday at Hisar in Haryana.
The actor-turned-politician rose to fame with her TikTok videos. She contested the 2019 Haryana election as a BJP candidate but lost to then Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnoi (who has since joined BJP). She also appeared in reality TV show Bigg Boss in 2020.
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