New Delhi: A Delhi courtroom, on Wednesday rejected the police’s plea to increase wrestler Sushil Kumar’s custody. Rather, the courtroom remanded the wrestler to judicial custody within the notorious Chatrasal homicide case of wrestler Sagar Dhankhar.
Additional Public Prosecutor Atul Srivastava had requested for extending Susil Kumar’s police custody and likewise known as him a “cold-blooded murder”. Srivastava stated, “He (Sushil) was the in-charge of the whole lot there. DVR has not been recovered. The cell phone must be recovered. It is clearly seen from bare eyes that he was carrying a danda. That danda has not been recovered. The garments he was sporting haven’t been recovered.”
Kumar was nabbed last week and remanded in police custody for six days. On Saturday, Sushil Kumar was produced before the court at the end of the remand period.
Sagar Dhankhar who had been training at the iconic Chhatrasal Stadium, died while two of his friends got injured after they were allegedly assaulted by Sushil Kumar on May 4, at the Chhatrasal Stadium premises in Delhi.
Kumar’s four associates were involved in the alleged property dispute case that led to the death of the 23-year-old wrestler. They are active members of the Kala Asauda and Neeraj Bawana gangs and were arrested from Delhi’s Kanjhawala area on Tuesday night.
Sushil’s lawyer Pardeep Rana had said, “He is the one who brought pride to the country, not just once, but twice. He is the only person in our country who did this. He has been conferred the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, Padma Bhushan etc. But the investigating agency is hardly caring about his personal liberty.”
