Panaji: The death of a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sonali Phogat at a hospital on Goa on Monday kicked up controversy on Wednesday after her brother Rinku Dhaka filed a formal complaint with the Goa police, claiming that two of her associates had murdered her. On getting information about the death of Phogat, Dhaka with her family members arrived in Goa on Tuesday.
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Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that the police began to conduct an inquiry into the death of Phogat. Sawant told reporters that considering the opinion of doctors and that of Goa director general of police Jaspal Singh, it looked like she had died due to cardiac arrest. Dhaka, however, alleged that just before her death Phogat had spoken to her mother, sister and brother-in-law. She sounded disturbed and complained against her two colleagues, Dhaka said, adding that the CCTV cameras, laptops and other crucial items went missing from her farmhouse in Haryana after her death. In the complaint, he filed with the Anjuna police in Goa, Dhaka claimed that two of her associates had murdered her.
