NEW DELHI: At an cat-and-mouse game durable 18 times, two-time Olympic medalist and also worldwide wrestler Sushil Kumar was arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police on Sunday early during the murder case of the other international-level wrestler, Sagar Dhankad (23), that happened at Chhatrasal Stadium in northwest Delhi. Among Kumar’s partners, Ajay, was detained also. The case was moved to the Crime Branch and Kumar was delivered to six months in police custody with a court.
Kumar, a Padma Shri, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award receiver, was shuttling between Delhi, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to prevent arrest. He was eventually nabbed at Mundka near the Delhi-Haryana boundary. The usage of a dongle to surf the net on a cell phone, that had been without a SIM cardhelped authorities narrow their search. Aside from that, human intellect also played a significant part in the arrest.
At 14 teams from other areas of Delhi Police, such as northwest district and distinctive Cell, was pursuing Kumar ever as he went in to hiding.
Following Dhankad’s thrashing, Kumar went home and slept. The following day, when he discovered he was named in the FIR for murderthat he fled Rishikesh. For the initial few days, he used his own cellular telephone number, but afterwards destroyed it. Since raids started to intensify, he abandoned Rishikesh and attained Mathura within an Innova, in which he had been captured on CCTV in a toll booth.
Within the upcoming few days, ” he kept distance between Delhi and also Bahadurgarh, but afterwards returned to Chandigarh. From that point, he travelled on Bathinda and Jalandhar, simply to return to Chandigarh.
On Saturdayhe attained Gurgaon to collect cash from a liquor provider. By day, three or more police units had closed on him. At that moment, his partners kept spreading false information on interpersonal media regarding his arrest from various areas in Punjab and elsewhere. But he had been monitored in Gurgaon by authorities utilizing internet-aided communicating. But he was able to dodge them late at night.
The accused wrestler subsequently jumped to Hari Nagar in west Delhi to fulfill a female buddy. He even took a scooty out there, but pitched it at the wee hours of Sunday. The group monitoring Kumar out of Gurgaon later discovered that the abandoned scooty. It was learnt that he’d boarded a vehicle and eventually started walking to satisfy his contact close to the Delhi-Haryana boundary.
“As he jumped Mundka, a particular mobile team headed by Agency Shiv Kumar cornered and detained at 9.15am,” explained DCP Pramod Kushwaha.
Throughout Kumar’s interrogation, authorities would determine the identity of those folks who kissed him. At least six notable individuals, including two police officers of a different nation, are all under the scanner,” sources said.
At the sleepless night of May 5 and 4, Dhankad had been crushed to death in the parking lot of Chhatrasal Stadium, supposedly by Kumar along with his partners. Kumar originally denied his participation, but went into hiding when authorities detained his partner, Prince, also recovered a cellphone video revealing others and him attacking Dhankad, the son of a Delhi Police mind constable.
Kumar had asked Prince to create the movie to”send a message” over to his competitions. TOI was the very first to mention that Kumar was obviously seen engaging in this murder. Police had captured four vehicles from beyond the stadium along with a double-barrel gun had been recovered from among these.
Dhankad’s autopsy revealed he was thrashed. He had several fractures and died because of cerebral damage, which had been the consequence of blunt force effect on his mind. A number of abrasions and bruises were discovered in his upper limbs, torso and stomach.
