Excelsior Sports Correspondent
REASI, June 21: Wrestler Ishaq Ahmed (Lallu) of J&K Police lifted ‘16th annual Dangal title 2024 by defeating wrestler Abhinayak of UP in the first malli bout that lasted for 8 minutes at village Sarna in this district today.
Winner of 1st malli bout wrestler Ishaq Ahmed was awarded with cash prize of Rs 41,000 while runner-up wrestler Abhinayak got Rs 30,000. BJP District Reasi President and social activist Rohit Dubey was chief guest who gave away the cash prizes among the wrestlers. He also contributed Rs 31,000 as financial assistance to the organizers.
The 2nd malli bout was won by Wrestler Surjit Singh of J&K Police, resident of Reasi who defeated wrestler Usman of Mathura (UP). The winner Surjit Singh was awarded with a cash prize of Rs 18,000 while runner-up Usman got Rs 13,000. The 3rd malli bout was won by Nadeem of J&K Police of Doda who defeated Munish of Khanna in Punjab. Winner Wrestler Nadeem was awarded with a cash prize of Rs15,000 while runner-up wrestler Munsish got Rs 10,000. Another 3rd malli bout was won by Maam Hussain of Domel who defeated Chandi of Maharashtra, Maam Hussain was awarded with cash prize of Rs 12,000 while runner-up wrestler Chandi got Rs 9,000. One hundred six (106) wrestlers participated in the one day long dangal in which 53 bouts were played and an amount of Rs 3,70,000 was distributed in the shape of cash prizes.
The bouts were officiated by Mohd Sharif, Rajinder Kumar Ramotra, Harbans Lal, Raj Singh, Tulinder Kumar, proceedings were conducted by Sunny Sharma, Pawan Singh and Anil Kumar of Reasi.
Other results were Shaker Noor of Merrut who beat Ankush of Delhi, Arjun of Jammu beat Jai Bhagwan of Delhi, Murad Ali of Jatti beat Javed of UP, Dillar of J&K Police beat Neeru Gujjar of BSF Chandigarh and Billu of Panj Grian beat Sandesh of Delhi. Bouts played between Kharpu of Jammu and Salman Ali of Delhi ended in a draw.