SONIPAT/GONDA, Nov 10:
A university-level wrestler named Nisha Dahiya and her brother were killed and their mother suffered injuries as some assailants opened fire on them at a wrestling academy in Haryana’s Sonipat district today, following which angry villagers set the facility on fire.
The murdered woman’s identity created confusion as several reports initially mistook her for her more famous namesake who won a bronze medal in the recent under-23 world championship in Belgrade.
Police suspected that the coach-cum-owner of the academy in Sonipat’s Halalpur area is behind the firing incident, and added that the motive is being investigated and efforts are being made to nab him.
Sonipat Assistant Superintendent of Police Mayank Gupta said Nisha Dahiya (20) and her brother Suraj (18) were killed in the incident, but rejected reports that the slain woman was the bronze-medallist wrestler.
She was a university-level wrestler who had been practising in the Sushil Kumar Wrestling Academy, Gupta added.
But there was chaos online as several reports initially identified Dahiya as the world medallist, who had been congratulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi just this morning for her performance in Belgrade some days back.
The Wrestling Federation of India shared a video in which the fast-rising wrestler can be seen stating that she is in Gonda in Uttar Pradesh for the National Championships and fine.
Sitting next to her in the video is 2016 Olympic bronze-medallist Sakshi Malik.
“The girl who died was a newcomer hailing from Halalpur village in Sonipat. She is also Nisha Dahiya but not the one who went to the U-23 world championship,” coach Randhir Malik, who travelled with the Indian women’s team to Belgrade, said. (PTI)
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