TOP Afternoon news | 27.8.2022

The Goa police Saturday detained owner of Curlies beach shack, where actor and BJP leader Sonali Phogat died in mysterious circumstances. A drug peddler Dattprashad Gaonkar has also been arrested, reported news agency ANI. Gaonkar had supplied drugs to accused Sukhwinder Singh.

The total number of arrests made in the Haryana BJP leader's death case stands at four now.

Sudhir Sangwan and his associate Sukhwinder Singh were arrested on Friday after the police accessed the CCTV footage of the accused and the deceased partying at the club.

"On the basis of 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," Inspector General of Police Omvir Singh Bishnoi said.