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Goa police detain suspected drug peddler, restaurant owner in Sonali Phogat case

Goa Police on Saturday detained a suspected peddler who allegedly supplied drugs to the two accused arrested in the BJP leader Sonali Phogat murder case, a senior officer said.Dattaprasad Gaonkar was detained from Anjuna after the accused duo “confessed” in their statement that they had procured drugs from him, the officer said.

Another man who has been detained is identified as Edwin Nunes, the owner of Curlies restaurant, where Phogat was partying late at night on August 22 before her death under mysterious circumstances.Goa Police had arrested Sudhir Sagwan and Sukhwinder Singh accompanying Phogat, a popular TikTok star who hailed from Haryana, to Goa.