Sonali Phogat case: Goa court remands three accused to police custody for 5 days
The Hindu
Sonali Phogat, a former TikTok star and contestant on the reality TV show Big Boss, was brought dead to a hospital in North Goa district on August 23
A Goa court on August 28 remanded three of the accused arrested in the case of alleged murder of BJP leader Sonali Phogat to police custody for five days, a senior police official said.
The police produced the three accused — Edwin Nunes, who owns the Curlies restaurant in Goa, and two drug peddlers Dattaprasad Gaonkar and Ramakant Mandrekar — before the court in Panaji.
The court sent them in police custody for five days, the official said.
Mr. Nunes had also moved an application for bail, but the court rejected it, the official added.
Phogat (43), a former TikTok star and contestant on the reality TV show Big Boss, was brought dead to a hospital in North Goa district on August 23, a day after arrival in the coastal State.
On Saturday night, the Anjuna police in North Goa arrested drug peddler Rama alias Ramadas Mandrekar for allegedly supplying drugs to another peddler Dattaprasad Gaonkar, who is already in custody in connection with the case, an official said earlier in the day.
The police had earlier also arrested two of Phogat's associates — Sudhir Sagwan and Sukhwinder Singh — who accompanied her on the Goa trip.
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