Daughter Yashodhara lights pyre as family bids tearful adieu to Sonali Phogat

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

Hisar,
Aug
26:
The
last
rites
of
Haryana
BJP
leader
Sonali
Phogat,
who
died
under
mysterious
circumstances
in
Goa,
were
held
here
on
Friday
even
as
a
large
number
of
people
turned
up
to
pay
their
last
respects.

Phogat’s
teenage
daughter
Yashodhara
lit
the
funeral
pyre
as
she
and
the
other
family
members
bade
her
a
tearful
adieu
at
the
cremation
ground
in
Rishi
Nagar.

Phogat,
who
started
her
career
as
a
news
anchor,
later
found
fame
on
video
hosting
platform
TikTok
and
also
acted
in
a
few
movies.

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Phogat
death:
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police
questions
2
accused
in
the
‘murder’
case

On
Thursday
evening,
her
body
was
brought
to
her
farmhouse
here
from
Goa
to
enable
people
pay
their
tributes.

Haryana
Minister
Kamal
Gupta,
the
BJP
MLA
from
Hisar,
and
another
party
leader
Kuldeep
Bishnoi
were
present.

On
August
23
morning,
Phogat
was
rushed
to
St
Anthony
Hospital
at
Anjuna
in
North
Goa,
where
she
was
declared
dead.
Her
husband,
too,
had
died
under
mysterious
circumstances
a
few
years
ago.

Though
initially,
it
was
assumed
that
she
may
have
died
due
to
a
heart
attack,
a
post-mortem
report
mentioned
that
there
were
“multiple
blunt
force
injuries” on
her
body,
prompting
the
Goa
Police
to
press
charges
of
murder
against
two
of
her
associates
Sudhir
Sagwan
and
Sukhwinder
Wasi.

Her
brother
Rinku
Dhaka
had
filed
a
complaint
against
the
two
men
at
Anjuna
Police
Station
on
Wednesday.

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On
Thursday,
Haryana
Chief
Minister
Manohar
Lal
Khattar
had
said
his
government
will
consider
handing
over
the
case
to
the
Central
Bureau
of
Investigation
if
the
Phogat
family
wanted
so.
On
Friday,
Kuldeep
Bishnoi
said
he
had
spoken
to
the
chief
minister
and
urged
him
for
a
CBI
inquiry.