BJP leader Sonali Phogat’s body had “multiple blunt force injuries”, an autopsy revealed on Thursday hours after two of her associates were charged with her murder. Both were arrested from Goa late last evening.
“There are multiple blunt force injuries over the body. In view of the above, the manner of death is for the investigating officer to ascertain,” the post-mortem report said on the ‘Bigg Boss’ star whose death has stunned the political and entertainment world.
“Women police officers who conducted a physical examination of Sonali Phogat’s body have not found any sharp-edged injuries on the body,” police said.
Sonali Phogat’s personal assistant Sudhir Sangwan and his friend Sukhwinder Wasi, who were with her when she arrived in Goa on Monday, have been charged and arrested.
Sonali Phogat, 43, was declared dead at the St Anthony Hospital at Anjuna in North Goa on Tuesday morning. Her family questioned initial reports that she had died of a cardiac arrest.
The family wanted the post-mortem in Delhi’s AIIMS but agreed to one in Goa after the police filed a murder case.
Her brother Rinku Dhaka filed a complaint alleging that his sister was raped and murdered by Sudhir Sangwan and Sukhwinder. He claimed she was being blackmailed with an explicit video.