Chhatrasal Murder Case: Delhi Court Remands Sushil Kumar To Judicial Custody

Additional Public Prosecutor Atul Srivastava had asked for extending Susil Kumar's police custody and also called him a "cold-blooded murder".

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New Delhi: A Delhi court, on Wednesday rejected the police's plea to extend wrestler Sushil Kumar's custody. Rather, the court remanded the wrestler to judicial custody in the infamous Chatrasal murder case of wrestler Sagar Dhankhar. 

Additional Public Prosecutor Atul Srivastava had asked for extending Susil Kumar's police custody and also called him a "cold-blooded murder".  Srivastava said, “He (Sushil) was the in-charge of everything there. DVR has not been recovered. The mobile phone has to be recovered. It is clearly visible from naked eyes that he was carrying a danda. That danda has not been recovered. The clothes he was wearing have not 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."