Panaji, August 25
Goa Police on Thursday pressed a charge of murder against two associates of BJP leader Sonali Phogat soon after autopsy was conducted on her body.
The Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code has been added in the case related to the death of the 42-year-old leader, a senior police official told PTI here.
Sudhir Sagwan and Sukhwinder Wasi were named as accused in the case, he added.
Sagwan and Wasi had accompanied Phogat to Goa when she arrived in the coastal state on August 22.
Her brother Rinku Dhaka had filed a complaint against the two men at Anjuna Police Station on Wednesday.
Autopsy was conducted on Phogat’s body at the Goa Medical College and Hospital earlier in the day.
Phogat (42), a BJP leader from Hisar in Haryana who had found fame on Tik Tok, was brought dead at St Anthony Hospital in Anjuna area of North Goa district on Tuesday morning, a police official earlier said, adding that she died of a suspected heart attack.
