Sonali Phogat Death: Goa’s ‘Curlie’s’ restaurant back in limelight after 14 years

India

oi-PTI

Panaji, Aug 25:
The
restaurant
on
Goa’s
famous
Anjuna
beach,
where
Haryana
BJP
leader
Sonali
Phogat
had
visited
before
coming
back
to
her
hotel
and
complaining
of
uneasiness,
was
in
the
limelight
14
years
ago
when
a
British
teenager
had
died.

Sonali
Phogat
(42)
had
visited
‘Curlie’s’ restaurant
on
Monday
night
and
was
brought
dead
to
the
St
Anthony
Hospital
in
Anjuna
in
North
Goa
district
from
her
hotel
on
August
23
morning.

Her
death,
earlier
suspected
to
have
been
caused
by
a
heart
attack,
is
now
being
treated
as
a
murder
and
two
of
her
associates
have
been
arrested
by
the
Anjuna
police.

The
restaurant
had
hit
the
headlines
during
investigations
into
the
death
of
British
teenager
Scarlett
Eden
Keeling
in
2008.

The
mother
of
Keeling
had
then
claimed
her
daughter
said
she
had
visited
‘Curlie’s’
just
before
coming
to
the
place
where
she
was
sexually
assaulted
and
left
to
die
on
the
beach.

“From
the
evidence
on
record
it
appeared
that
Scarlett
Keeling
was
taken
to
Curlie’s
prior
to
her
arrival
at
the
Lui’s
Shack
where
she
finally
died,” advocate
Vikram
Varma,
a
lawyer
who
represented
the
Scarlett’s
mother,
Fiona
Mackeown,
told
PTI
on
Thursday.

Sonali
Phogat’s
autopsy
report
reveals
‘multiple
blunt
force
injuries
on
body’

He
said
the
evidence
also
revealed
“she
could
have
already
been
intoxicated
with
dangerous
narcotics
prior
to
arriving
at
Lui’s
Shack.”
Now,
the
restaurant
is
again
in
news
following
the
death
of
Sonali
Phogat,
who
hailed
from
Hisar
in
Haryana
and
found
fame
on
TikTok,
the
popular
video
hosting
service
now
banned
in
India.

Sonali
Phogat’s
nephew
Mohinder
Phogat
has
claimed
she
was
taken
to
Curlie’s
by
the
two
arrested
accused,
Sudhir
Sagwan
and
Sukhwinder
Wasi,
on
the
fateful
night.

“She
was
told
there
is
a
man
from
Haryana
who
is
working
in
Curlie’s
whom
they
wanted
to
meet,”
he
said.

Mohinder
Phogat
said
Sonali
Phogat
went
straight
to
her
hotel
room
from
Curlie’s
before
being
taken
to
the
hospital
the
next
morning.

After
arriving
at
the
hotel,
the
42-year-old
Haryana
politician
had
complained
of
uneasiness,
he
said.

When
contacted,
the
owner
of
Curlie’s,
Edwin
Nunes,
confirmed
Sonali
Phogat
had
come
to
his
restaurant
along
with
others.

“No
one
from
our
staff
knew
them.
They
were
like
normal
customers
for
us,”
he
said.

Nunes
said
he
was
questioned
by
the
Goa
police
over
Sonali
Phogat’s
presence
at
his
restaurant
after
her
death.

“I
have
told
the
police
they
were
just
like
any
other
customers
to
us,”
he
added.