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March 12, New Delhi: Former Wrestler & India’s two-time Olympic Medalist Sushil Kumar presently lodged in Tihar Jail in Delhi, is now giving wrestling & fitness coaching to prison inmates, who are interested.
Director-General of Prisons Sandeep Goel
said, “We have allowed Sushil Kumar to give fitness and wrestling coaching to those prisoners who are interested, 6-7 prisoners are receiving coaching from him,” he was quoted as saying by ANI.
According to him, this was decided earlier but wasn’t done due to the third wave of Covid.
“We had decided to allow this earlier but could not do so in view of the third wave of Covid. Now, with normalisation of the situation, routine activities in prisons are being restored. So, we will allow Sushil Kumar to give coaching classes on wrestling and physical fitness to other inmates who are interested,” Director General (Delhi Prisons) Sandeep Goel told PTI.
Before the third wave of COVID-19 hit the national capital in September 2021, the Delhi Prisons Department launched an initiative to provide professional training in several sports to inmates of Tihar Jail.
Kumar is in Tihar Jail for his alleged role in the Chhatrasal murder case, where wrestler Sagar Dhankar was beaten to death.
Kumar was arrested along with co-accused Ajay Kumar on May 23 last year from outer Delhi’s Mundka area in the Chhatrasal Stadium case
He and his associates allegedly assaulted wrestler Sagar Dhankar and two of his friends, Sonu and Amit Kumar, on the intervening night of May 4 and 5 over a property dispute. Dhankar, 23, succumbed to injuries later.
