Wrestler Sushil Claims Innocence In Murder & Gangster Links

Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar, who is the prime accused in the murder of wrestler Sagar Dhankar and is presently being interrogated by the Delhi Police, has claimed during his questioning that he is innocent and was misguided by some people who suggested that he should hide after the brawl at Chhatarsal Stadium, said officers in Delhi Polices’s Crime Branch on Thursday.

“During police interrogation, Sushil Kumar claimed that he is innocent and he was misguided by some people around him who had advised him to hide. The wrestler said, ‘why will I commit murder. I can never think of committing murder. I don’t support gangsters’,” the officers said.

They also informed that Crime Branch is taking the help of a psychologist to unearth the conspiracy in the Sagar Dhankar murder case. “Sushil is smart and he is mentally strong enough to manipulate the answers. This is why police need to take the help of a psychologist,” they added.

According to Crime Branch officers, Sushil Kumar is afraid of facing psychological evaluation and is avoiding the questions framed by the psychological expert. “He keeps changing his statement. We have questioned eight witnesses. After their testimonies, Sushil Pahalwan was cornered. Four of his associates have also been arrested and sent to four days of police custody. As a part of the investigation, Sushil Kumar will be confronted with these to ascertain the sequence of events and dig out as to what led to the incident,” they added.

Police appears to have found Sushil’s links with Gangster Kala Jatedi’s brother Pradeep. They reportedly found photos of Pradeep and Sushil together from 2018, December 18. PRadeep fled to foreign country.

An incident of a brawl among wrestlers was reported on May 4 at Chhatarsal Stadium in which some wrestlers were injured and had to be admitted to a hospital and one of them, Dhankar, died during treatment. On May 23, wrestler Sushil Kumar was arrested from the Mundka area in the national capital along with his associate Ajay Bakkarwala.

Delhi HC to hear tomorrow wrestler Sushil Kumar’s mother plea seeking to restrain media

The Delhi High Court on Thursday said that it will hear tomorrow a petition moved by Sushil Kumar’s mother Kamla Devi and a law student seeking to make standard rules for reporting in criminal cases by considering the rights of the accused, to put stop to media trial and to stop from “sensational reporting” in the case against the wrestler.

The petition was filed by Sushil Kumar’s mother Kamla Devi and Shrikant Prasad, a law student at Delhi University. The law student claimed that Sushil Kumar’s mother has given him consent to file the petition. The petitioner also sought to restrain the media from declaring him guilty even before the decision of the court.

The petition sought to initiate a high power committee to unveil those who were leaking each and every information to the media by breaching the right to privacy of the accused causing prejudice, biased to him, his right to a free and fair trial is taken up by the media with an intention to end his career.

A Delhi court on Sunday remanded wrestler Sushil Kumar in connection with the Chhatrasal Stadium murder of 23-year-old wrestler Sagar Dhankar. A non-bailable warrant was issued against Kumar and others in the case relating to the alleged killing of Sagar Dhankar at Chhatrasal Stadium on May 4.

(ANI)