Phogat’s death was initially registered as an ‘unnatural death’ by the Goa Police and a case of murder was registered on a complaint by her brother. The post mortem report had found several blunt force injuries on her body.
Phogat, from Hisar in Haryana, was brought dead to a hospital in Goa on the intervening night of August 22-23 after a party at Curlies restaurant at Anjuna beach.