Panaji: The fifth arrest was made in connection with the Sonali Phogat death case on Sunday, the Goa police said. The accused has been identified as Rama Mandrakar who supplied drugs to Datta Prasad Gaonkar. The latter supplied it to Sudhir Sangwan, personal assistant of Phogat.
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The police seized “methamphetamine” drugs given to Phogat in the washroom of the Curlies restaurant. It was the same restaurant where she was partying before her death. Gaonkar, who was working as a room boy in Hotel Grand Leoney Resort in Anjuna, had supplied the drugs to Sangwan. Gaonkar fell into the police dragnet on Saturday.
