Olympian Wrestler Sushil Kumar Despatched To 4-Day Police Custody In Homicide Case

New Delhi:

Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar, arrested in a homicide case, has been despatched to 4 days in police custody nowadays. The wrestler used to be arrested closing week for his alleged involvement within the dying of a 23-year-old wrestler at Delhi’s Chhatrasal Stadium, along side co-accused Ajay from outer Delhi’s Mundka house.

Consistent with police, Sushil Kumar and his buddies assaulted fellow wrestler Sagar Dhankar and his two pals on Would possibly Four on the stadium. All 3 needed to be hospitalised. Mr Dhankar later died of his accidents.

Police had previous discovered a video of the incident recorded by way of Sushil Kumar to terrorise the wrestling circuit within the town and introduced it to court docket. Screengrabs of the wrestler assaulting the sufferer with sticks surfaced two days in the past.

“Sushil had requested (his buddy) Prince to make that video. He and his buddies thrashed the sufferers like animals. He sought after to ascertain his concern within the wrestling group,” the police advised a court docket closing week.

The 37-year-old champion wrestler have been at the run for almost 3 weeks. Police had raided a number of places and neighbouring towns to arrest Sushil Kumar.

On Would possibly 18, Sushil Kumar had approached a court docket in Delhi’s Rohini searching for coverage from arrest, claiming that the probe towards him used to be biased and that no accidents led to to the sufferer had been as a result of him. The court docket, then again, pushed aside his anticipatory bail plea, pronouncing he used to be “prima facie the principle conspirator” and allegations towards him had been severe in nature.

Sushil Kumar received a bronze medal within the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a silver medal within the 2012 London Olympics.