PANAJI
Nearly 10 months after his arrest in the high-profile murder of BJP leader Sonali Phogat, prime accused Sudhir Sangwan was on Friday granted conditional bail by the District & Sessions Court. This is his second bail in the same case, as he also faces charges of possessing a variable quantity of drugs at Curlies shack in Anjuna where Phogat was allegedly drugged last August.
Sangwan, who worked as Phogat’s personal assistant, is accused of drugging her in the resort and at the party venue where he allegedly carried drugs in a bottle of water in connivance with co-accused Sukhwinder Singh. The drug overdose led to her death.
In the present matter, the Court has released Sangwan on the condition of furnishing a bail bond of Rs 1 lakh with one or more sureties of the like amount, and that he reports to the Office of the Superintendent of Central Bureau of Investigation every Friday. Other conditions include not leaving the State till further Court orders, not threatening witnesses or tampering with evidence, etc.
The CBI, which filed over a 1,000 pages chargesheet within three months of the offense last year, has already submitted to the Court that their investigation is still open. The 60-odd pages of the forensic report from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory at Chandigarh ascertained Phogat was drugged.
