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Sonali Phogat Death: Family agrees for post-mortem; demands procedure be videographed

On Tuesday morning, Sonali Phogat was “brought dead” at the St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa, said a police official.

New Delhi: BJP leader Sonali Phogat’s family member has said they have agreed to give their consent for the autopsy or forensic exam, but they have a a condition that the procedure will be video-graphed.

Sonali’s brother Rinku Phogat has said that she was threatened, scared. Something was added to her food after which she had complained of restlessness.

He said that it was a pre planned murder and he wants justice for it.

Also, Rinku Phogat, brother of Sonali Phogat has demanded an FIR before his sister’s post-mortem.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had said the state police are conducting a detailed investigation into the death of Sonali Phogat.

According to the doctors and Goa Director General of Police (DGP) Jaspal Singh, it is said that in the preliminary it looks like she died due to a heart attack.

Her brother also alleged that before her death, Phogat had spoken to her mother, sister and brother-in-law over the phone in which she sounded disturbed and complained against her two colleagues.

Sonali's elder sister also said that at around 11:00 pm she was feeling uneasy and had complained about food.  Also, during a phone call, Sonali had informed her mother that she was getting messy after eating.  Hours before her sudden demise, she had had updated her Twitter display picture and had shared a videos of herself on Instagram. In the new picture that she had shared, she can be seen flaunting her pink dupatta. Who was Sonali Phogat? Sonali Phogat, hailed from Haryana. She had contested the last assembly election from Haryana's Adampur constituency on a BJP ticket against Kuldeep Bishnoi. Sonali had also participated in the reality show 'Bigg Boss' in 2020. In 2016, she had made her acting debut with the TV show 'Amma: Ek Maa Jo Laakhon Ke Liye Bani Amma'. In 2019, Sonali Phogat was also a part of the web series, 'The Story Of Badmashgarh.' 

He also claimed that the CCTV cameras, laptop and other important things have gone missing after her death from the farmhouse in the Goa where she was staying.

On Tuesday morning, Sonali Phogat was “brought dead” at the St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa, said a police official.

The police had earlier said that she died of a suspected heart attack.