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.
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.
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