Goa

Two more people have been arrested in connection with the alleged murder case of actor and BJP leader Sonali Phogat.

According to the police they include the owner of Curlies beach shack in Anjuna and a suspected drug peddler Dattprashad Gaonkar taking the total arrests in the case to four.

On Friday, Phogat's PA Sudhir Sangwan and his associate, Sukhwinder Singh were taken into custody in connection with the alleged murder after police accessed the CCTV footage in which the trio were seen partying at a club.

Police said that the duo who travelled to Goa with Phogat on August 22 had during interrogation confessed that they had intentionally made her drink a liquid mixed with some "obnoxious" chemical.

Both the accused will be produced before the court today.

Meanwhile, the suspected peddler Gaonkar held today had allegedly supplied drugs to Sukhwinder Singh.

Statements of more than 20-25 people have been recorded so far in the case.

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Sonali Phogat, 42, was declared dead at the St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa on August 23. A post-mortem report revealed blunt force injury on her body, following which the Goa Police registered a murder case.