Accused drug suppliers granted bail in the Sonali Phogat death case
Accused drug suppliers granted bail in the Sonali Phogat death case
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Ramadas Mandrekar and Dattaprasad Gaonkar, who are accused of obtaining and supplying the methamphetamine (MDMA) that was administered to BJP leader Sonali Phogat the night she passed away, were granted bail by the neighborhood NDPS (Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) court on Monday.

In its order issued on Monday, the NDPS court granted both Gaonkar and Mandrekar bail in exchange for the provision of bail bonds worth 30,000 each and two sureties worth 15,000 each.

The pair, as well as Edwin Nunes, the proprietor of Curlies' restaurant, was detained by the Goa police for their alleged involvement in the drug supply chain. Bail was previously granted for Nunes on September 7.

The Goa police expanded their investigation to include the narcotics angle, leading to the arrests of Gaonkar, Nunes, and Mandrekar on August 27 and Mandrekar's capture the following day.

The now-closed Curlies' beach shack and nightclub, where Phogat was last seen partying the night she died, was visited on Sunday by a team from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has taken over the investigation into her death.

The team, which has been camped out in Goa for three days, arrived at the south Anjuna beach and stopped by the shack, which the National Green Tribunal has ordered to be demolished in its entirety for violating the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification. More than two thirds of the shack are now gone.

The team spent more than 10 hours on Saturday at the Grand Leoney Resort, where Sonali Phogat and the two people who are accused of killing her — her manager Sudhir Sangwan and his associate Sukhwinder Singh — were staying. They were able to seize some evidence from the two rooms — one where Sonali Phogat was staying and the other where Sangwan and Singh were allegedly staying.

On Friday, the four-person CBI team arrived in Goa and formally took over the investigation from the Goa police.

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