Delhi police issues Look-out-Circular against absconding Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar




The victims in their statements have also alleged that Kumar and his associates abducted Saggar from his house in Model Town to teach him a lesson for bad mouthing him in front of other wrestlers, police said.


Delhi Police has issued a Look-out-Circular (LoC) against the two-time Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar who is absconding after a 23-year-old former junior national champion, Saggar Rana, was beaten to death during a brawl at the Chhatrasal Stadium parking area.

After the incident, an FIR of murder, abduction and criminal conspiracy was registered against Kumar.

Additional DCP (North-West district) Dr. Guriqbal Singh Sidhu has confirmed that they have issued LoC against Sushil Kumar. “We have recorded statements of all the victims and they all made allegations against Sushil Kumar. We are conducting raids to nab Sushil Kumar,” Sidhu said.

The victims in their statements have also alleged that Kumar and his associates abducted Saggar from his house in Model Town to teach him a lesson for bad mouthing him in front of other wrestlers, police said.



What exactly happened ?


On Tuesday, Saggar Rana, who had competed in the 97-kg Greco-Roman category, was beaten to death in a clash involving two groups. Rana was a former junior national champion and is part of the senior national camp. “We have found during investigation that a quarrel had allegedly taken place between Sushil Kumar, Ajay, Prince Dalal, Sonu, Saggar, Amit and others in the parking area of the stadium,” Sidhu said.

Police recorded the statements of all the victims during which they said that Saggar and some of his friends, including injured Sonu Mahal, who is a close associate of gangster Kala Jathedi, were staying in a house linked to Sushil near the stadium. “They had been asked to vacate recently and were removed from the house forcefully. Sushil later came to know that Saggar had started bad mouthing him in the Chhatrasal Stadium in front of other wrestlers and also threatened him of dire consequences,” a senior police officer said.

Police said that during the investigation, they also found a recorded video of the incident from the mobile phone of accused Prince Dalal, in which faces of all the attackers can be seen. “Dalal was arrested from the spot and we seized his cellphone, two double barrel guns along with seven live cartridges of 12 bore from his possession. After investigation, we have found that the guns were registered in the name of one resident of Ashoda village in Haryana’s Jhajjar,” police sources said.

 Summary



Delhi court on Thursday issued non-bailable warrants against two associates of two-time Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar in connection with the murder of a 23-year-old former junior national wrestling champion, Sagar Rana. Virender and Rohit were present at the Chhatrasal Stadium along with Sushil Kumar on the day of the incident and were also involved in beating Sagar.


The Delhi Police also interrogated the four accused of the Neeraj Bawana gang on Thursday. During the interrogation, the police also showed Sushil a video in which he was attacking

In the latest developments, Sushil Kumar was taken to Chandigarh and Haryana by the Crime Branch on Thursday. In the interrogation, Sushil has named others involved in the case. The people named by the wrestler are residents of Chandigarh and Haryana. The police are yet to recover the revolver and other weapons seen in the video of the brawl.

Sushil Kumar is currently under 6-day police custody. The police took him to the Chhatrasal Stadium recently to recreate the crime scene.

Police on Sunday arrested Sushil and his associate, Ajay Kumar, after being on the run for 19 days. Delhi Police, after several unsuccessful attempts, arrested the wrestler from Mundka in West Delhi. Sushil was sent to 6-day police custody, and the Delhi Police Crime Branch has been investigating the case.

During the interrogation, Sushil confessed he only wanted to teach a lesson to the deceased so that no one would mess with him in the future or consider him weak. He admitted that he had no intentions to murder Sagar Rana.