A team of Goa Police probing Sonali Phogat’s death will visit Haryana on Tuesday, said Inspector General of Police (Goa) Omvir Singh Bishnoi.
Earlier in the day, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said that if the need arises, the Sonali Phogat murder case will be transferred to the CBI. While talking to ANI, Sawant said that all the accused have been arrested and further investigations are going on.
He also said that the Haryana Chief Minister has been informed of the investigation. All the reports have been sent to the DGP Haryana. He also said that if the need arises, CBI will be involved.“We’ve arrested all accused. We are in talks with Haryana CM and have sent all reports to DGP Haryana. If we later feel the need to involve CBI, we will ask for it, CM Sawant said.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had assured Sonali Phogat’s family of a CBI probe into the actor’s death, Phogat’s sister Rupesh said after meeting CM Khattar in Chandigarh.
The Haryana government will write to the Goa government seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the death of BJP leader Sonali Phogat after her family met with Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in this regard, informed the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) on Saturday.Family members of the deceased BJP leader Sonali Phogat met Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar at his residence.
Sonali Phogat, 42, was declared dead at the St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa on August 23. A post-mortem report revealed blunt force injury on her body, following which the Goa Police registered a murder case.
Earlier, Goa Police had said that Sonali Phogat was forcibly drugged by her two associates who are now arrested after being named as accused in the case.
The Court in Goa on Sunday remanded the three accused in the death case of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sonali Phogat and sent them to five-day police custody.