New Delhi: BJP Leader and actor Sonali Phogat died due to heart attack on Monday night (August 22), but before her demise Phogat had visited Goa’s famous ‘Curlie’s’ Restaurant before coming back to her hotel where she complained of uneasiness.
Fourteen years ago, Curlie’s restaurant was in the limelight and was making headlines when a British teenager had died.
Sonali Phogat, 42, visited the ‘Curlie’s’ restaurant on Monday night and she was brought dead to the St Anthony Hospital in Anjuna in North Goa district from her hotel on Tuesday (August 23) morning.
Earlier, her death was said to be of suspected heart attack but now it has taken a turn and is being treated as a murder case and Anjuna police have arrested her two associates.
What happened in 2008?
In 2008, the restaurant was named and made headlines when it came into the scanner during an investigation into the death of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling.
After the death of the teenager, her mother had claimed that her daughter had said she had visited ‘Curlie’s’ just before coming to the place where she was sexually assaulted and was later left to die on the beach.
According to the advocate Vikram Varma, a lawyer who represented the Scarlett’s mother, Fiona Mackeown, told PTI on Thursday as per the evidence on record, Eden was taken to Curlie’s after her arrival at the Lui’s Shack where she died.
He also said that the evidence revealed that she could have already been intoxicated with dangerous narcotics after her arrival at Lui’s Shack.
He also said that none of the staff from his restaurant knew him. They were like normal customers for them.
On August 22, Sonali Phogat had arrived in Goa, she was accompanied by her associates Sudhir Sagwan and Sukhwinder Wasi.
On Thursday (August 25), the Goa Police pressed a charge of murder against Sonali’s two associates following the post-mortem report.
The post mortem report mentioned there were “multiple blunt force injuries” on the body of BJP leader Sonali Phogat.