Delhi: International athlete Palender Chaudhary commits suicide at JLN stadium

18-year-old sprinter Palender Chaudhary has reportedly committed suicide on Tuesday evening inside his hostel at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in the national capital.

Chaudhary, who hailed from Aligarh, was recently selected to the Army through sports quota. Photo: AFP (Representational)

NEW DELHI: International athlete Palender Chaudhary has reportedly committed suicide on Tuesday evening inside his hostel at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in the national capital. "Palender Chaudhary, an 18-year-old sprinter, has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan inside his hostel room in athletics academy at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru stadium," News agency ANI reported on Wednesday. A Sports Authority of India official said he was informed that an argument broke out between Chaudhary and his father over phone on Tuesday. "I was told he had an argument on phone with his father in the morning yesterday. Later his sister came to talk to him too. Unfortunately, we could not save him despite our best efforts," he said. Chaudhary, who hailed from Aligarh, was recently selected to the Army through sports quota. The sprinter was taken to a hospital in the evening where doctors said he was 'brain dead'. Later in the night, he was declared dead.

#Delhi: According to Delhi Police, the name of the 18-year-old sprinter who allegedly committed suicide at JL Nehru Stadium yesterday, is Palender Chaudhary and not Parvinder Chaudhary, as earlier told by the Sports Authority of India. https://t.co/rROGgOM0ll

— ANI (@ANI) November 14, 2018

No suicide note has been recovered, the police said. (More details awaited).