Delhi: Wrestler Sushil Kumar has been despatched to 6-day police custody in reference to the homicide case of 23-year-old Sagar Rana at Chhatrasal Stadium.
The two-time Olympic medallist was arrested on Saturday by a staff of Delhi Police from Mundka space of Delhi. Along with Kumar, Police additionally arrested Ajay Kumar, the person thought of to be wrestler’s right-hand.
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Soon after the arrest, Sushil and co-accused Ajay Kumar had been bodily produced earlier than the Delhi Court. The Delhi Police had sought a 12-day custody of Olympic medallist wrestler Sushil Kumar to query him over his alleged involvement within the demise case of 23-year-old wrestler.
During the proceedings, Additional Public Prosecutor Atul Shrivastava instructed the courtroom that Kumar’s interrogation is required to know the motive behind the crime and get better the weapon used within the homicide and the garments he was sporting throughout the incident. Srivastava instructed the courtroom that “the CCTV footage was dismantled, which must be recovered. They had overwhelmed them like wild animals. The garments which he was sporting additionally needed to be recovered.
Following the proceedings, the police was allowed to interrogate him for half-hour. Metropolitan Magistrate Divya Malhotra reserved the order on the police remand software.
Earlier this week, a Delhi Court had declined to grant anticipatory bail to Sushil Kumar. According to Delhi Police, Kumar’s final location was traced to Punjab’s Bathinda and a number of other groups performed raids in a number of elements of Haryana and Punjab to nab the wrestler.
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A younger wrestler Sagar Rana died, whereas two of his associates Sonu and Amit Kumar obtained injured, after they had been allegedly assaulted by Sushil Kumar and different wrestlers on May 4 night time, on the stadium premises within the nationwide capital.
