New Delhi: The owner of Curlies beach shack and nightclub, Edwin Nunes, after his bail in a separate case, was taken into custody by Hyderabad Police in connection with a drug supply case that was registered in August. Nunes was one of the five arrested after the death of BJP leader Sonali Phogat earlier this year.
“He was arrested by a team of the Hyderabad Police who were camping in Goa ever since he was rearrested by the Goa Police,” Hindustan Times quoted an official as saying.
Nunes is one of the several accused wanted by the Hyderabad police after a drug supplying racket was busted in Telangana three months back.
According to reports, police from Telangana's Lalaguda were camping in Goa after Additional Sessions Court in Mapusa had ordered Nunes earlier this week to surrender before the police for forging a Covid-19 certificate to avoid questioning in the Sonali Phogat murder case.
“As per his bail order he was called on several occasions at Anjuna Police Station in the month of November 2022 for investigation purposes but he had produced a fake Covid certificate of a private diagnostics lab and evaded investigation. Hence the Anjuna Police had lodged another FIR against him for submitting a forged document before the Police Station,” Hindustan Times quoted deputy superintendent of police Jivba Dalvi as saying.
Hyderabad Police had named Edwin Nunes in an FIR lodged in August, after an alleged drug peddler Preetesh Borkar, who was arrested by Hyderabad Police, said that the Curlies co-owner was among his many suppliers.
The Phogat death case is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after demands from Phogat's family, a khap panchayat and the Haryana administration. Nunes was arrested after it was found that Phogat, a BJP leader and actress, spent her final hours before she succumbed to a case of suspected overdose of methamphetamine at the outlet.