Drugs
Goa restaurant owner linked to Sonali Phogat's death arrested in drug case
Telangana Police Friday arrested Edwin Nunes, the owner of Curlies restaurant where BJP leader Sonali Phogat partied just hours before her death, in connection with an illegal drugs case, media reports said,
Telangana Police arrested him from Anjuna in Goa just hours later he was released on bail in a separate case.
He was among the five people, who were arrested for alleged links with Sonali Phogat's death.
The case was initially probed by the Goa Police but was later transferred to CBI.
Nunes is among dozens of drug dealers wanted by the police in Hyderabad, following a drug bust in Telangana three months ago, reported NDTV.
Telangana Police sleuths from Lallaguda were camping in Goa after the Additional Sessions Court in Mapusa had ordered Nunes, earlier this week, to surrender before the police in Anjuna for forging a COVID-19 certificate, the report said.
"He walked out of police custody after complying with the bail conditions imposed by the court. Police from Hyderabad were already at the police station, waiting for him. They took him into custody over cases registered against him in Telangana," a senior officer said in Panaji.
The report said citing sources that he had made several attempts to evade arrest but the High Court of Telangana last week directed him to surrender before Lalaguda police on November 7.
His lawyers argued that there was no specific case against Nunes but the Assistant Public Prosecutor submitted that Nunes was involved in several cases and was a drug peddler operating from Goa, the report stated.
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