Sonali Phogat Death Case: Brother Claims BJP Leader Was Murdered, Goa CM Assures Detailed Probe

Sonali Phogat's brother Rinku Dhaka claimed that the Police refused to register an FIR against the two persons who them suspect to be her murderers.

BJP leader Sonali Phogat died of a heart attack on August 22, 2022. ( Image Source :PTI )

New Delhi: BJP leader Sonal Phogat’s brother, Rinku Dhaka has filed a formal complaint with the Delhi police claiming that she was murdered by two of her associates, reported news agency PTI. Dhaka alleged that a short while before her death, Phogat had spoken to her mother, sister and brother-in-law during which she sounded disturbed and complained against her two colleagues.

As per the report, he also claimed that after Phgat’s death, the CCTV cameras, laptop and other crucial things have gone missing from her farmhouse. 

In his report, Dhaka claimed that two of Phogat's associates murdered her in Goa.

We had asked her to stay away from them and return to Hisar the next day (after Phogat spoke to her mother),” Dhaka told reporters outside the Anjuna police station.

He also claimed that the police have refused to register a First Information Report (FIR) against the two persons.

“If the FIR is not filed against them, we will not allow the postmortem to be conducted in Goa,” he said.

Dhaka said the family members would prefer the postmortem to be conducted at the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi or at AIIMS, Jaipur.

“She was a BJP leader for the last 15 years. We will also appeal to the prime minister to help us in getting justice for her,” he said.

Phogat (42), the BJP leader from Hisar in Haryana who had found fame on Tik Tok, was "brought dead" at the St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa on Tuesday morning, a police official earlier said, adding that she died of a suspected heart attack.

A case of unnatural death was registered by the Anjuna Police. 

State Police Conducting Detailed Probe: CM Pramod Sawant

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said that the police were conducting a detailed investigation in connection with the matter. 

Considering the opinion of doctors and Goa Director General of Police Jaspal Singh, it preliminary looks like she died due to a heart attack, Sawant told reporters adding that he has been following up the matter with Director General of Police Jaspal Singh.

“The Goa Police are conducting a detailed investigation into the case,” he said.

While Phogat’s family questioned the circumstances of her death and opposition parties in Haryana demanded a CBI probe, Singh said that there had been no foul play in the case. 

There are no external injury marks on the body, the DGP had said, adding that the postmortem report will reveal the exact cause of the death.