NEW DELHI: Two-time Olympic wrestling medallist Sushil Kumar was arrested on Sunday in connection with the murder of a fellow Indian wrestler after a week-long manhunt, Delhi police said.
Kumar went into hiding after 24-year-old Sagar Dhankad was badly beaten during a brawl between two groups of wrestlers outside Delhi’s Chhatrasal Stadium on May 4.
Dhankad, a former junior champion who was training as a senior wrestler, later died in hospital.
Kumar was arrested early Sunday in northwest Delhi with another suspect.
“They were switching their location when they were arrested,” a police officer said.
Both Kumar and a second man detained over the same offence later appeared in court, a Delhi Police spokesman added, without giving details of potential charges.
Two-time Olympic medalist and international wrestler Sushil Kumar (File photo)
NEW DELHI: In a cat-and-mouse game lasting 18 days, two-time Olympic medalist and international wrestler Sushil Kumar was finally arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police on Sunday morning in the murder case of another international-level wrestler, Sagar Dhankad (23), which took place at Chhatrasal Stadium in northwest Delhi. One of Kumar’s associates, Ajay, has been arrested too. The case has been transferred to the Crime Branch and Kumar has been sent to six days in police custody by a court.
Kumar, a Padma Shri, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award recipient, had been shuttling between Delhi, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to evade arrest. He was finally nabbed in Mundka near the Delhi-Haryana border. The use of a dongle to browse the internet on a mobile phone, which was without a SIM card, helped police narrow their search. Apart from this, human intelligence also played a
Two-time Olympic medalist and international wrestler Sushil Kumar (File photo)
NEW DELHI: In a cat-and-mouse game lasting 18 days, two-time Olympic medalist and international wrestler Sushil Kumar was finally arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police on Sunday morning in the murder case of another international-level wrestler, Sagar Dhankad (23), which took place at Chhatrasal Stadium in northwest Delhi. One of Kumar’s associates, Ajay, has been arrested too. The case has been transferred to the Crime Branch and Kumar has been sent to six days in police custody by a court.
Kumar, a Padma Shri, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award recipient, had been shuttling between Delhi, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to evade arrest. He was finally nabbed in Mundka near the Delhi-Haryana border. The use of a dongle to browse the internet on a mobile phone, which was without a SIM card, helped police narrow their search. Apart from this, human intelligence also played a
It has also emerged, according to police sources, that many people accompanying Sushil Kumar on the night of the murder were Bawana’s henchmen AFP
NEW DELHI: With the investigation against arrested wrestler Olympian Sushil Kumar in the murder of another wrestler taking off, the police are focusing on unearthing the crime network that Kumar was allegedly a part of along with jailed gangster Neeraj Bawana.
Police are claiming to have found more evidence of Kumar s links with Bawana as one of the vehicles, a Scorpio SUV, which was seized from the spot where wrestler Sagar Dhankad was murdered, has been found linked to a Bawana henchman, Mohit.