According to sources, the CBI team will collect documents and interact with the police and the doctors who checked Phogat after she fell ill.
Panjim: Days after BJP leader Sonali Phogat died, a CBI team has now reached Goa to investigate the death of the Haryana politician. Phogat had died last month and although initially it was attempted to pass it off as a death due to natural causes, her family members did not accept it, leading to the revelation that Phogat’s aides murdered her.
The CBI searched the rooms in the hotel Grand Leonny where Phogat and her aides stayed to collect evidence. The Goa Police had sealed the rooms right after the CBI had taken up the case.
According to sources, the CBI team will collect documents and interact with the police and the doctors who checked Phogat after she fell ill. Days after Sonali Phogat’s death, Goa police had registered a murder case after her family members raised doubts on the two associates who accompanied the BJP to Goa.
Talking to the media, Phogat’s brother Watan Dhaka had said, “I got a call from her (Sonali Phogat) assistant at 8 am yesterday (Tuesday). Later, the assistant said she fell ill around 2 am in the night. Why did he not call us then? Every time he spoke, he gave different statements. This is why we feel there’s something wrong.”
He had also said that the last time she spoke to Phogat, the politician was feeling uneasy. “As if something had been added to her food. She had told our mother that she would go to the hospital,” Dhaka was quoted by the media.
The family members had also demanded a CBI probe and had earlier said that the police are not filing an FIR in the case. Dhaka also demanded action against the two associates who accompanied Phogat.