Haryana: Based on a complaint filed by a junior athletics coach on Friday, the Chandigarh police department filed a sexual harassment and criminal intimidation case against Haryana Sports Minister Sandeep Singh today. The minister has resigned from his office and denied the charges as an attempt to ‘damage his image’.
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Sport Minister’s statement
“There is an attempt to spoil my image. I hope there will be a thorough investigation into the false allegations levelled against me. I hand over the responsibility of the Sports department to the Chief Minister until the report of the investigation comes out,” he stated.
The woman attended a press conference at the office of the opposition party Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), which has requested that the administration of Manohar Lal Khattar immediately fire Sandeep Singh and form a Special Investigation Team to look into the situation. She said that the minister harassed her on social media from February through November of last year. He inappropriately grabbed her and threatened her in messages, she claimed, adding that she had to leave social media due to the persistent harassment.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, a senior Congress politician, has also called for an impartial investigation into the incident.
According to the complainant, Mr Singh first saw her at a gym and subsequently contacted her on Instagram.
She later stated that the minister insisted on their meeting. “He messaged me on Instagram and said my national games certificate is pending and wanted to meet in this regard,” she continued.
“Unfortunately, my certificate has been misplaced by my federation and I have been taking it up with the authorities concerned.”
The woman claimed she agreed to meet him at his residence-cum-camp office here with some other documents she possessed, and that when she arrived, the minister engaged in sexual assault.
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About the Sports Minister Sandeep Singh
Sandeep Singh, the sitting BJP MLA from Pehowa in Kurukshetra, is also a professional field hockey player who served as captain of the Indian national team.
Mr Singh was the subject of a biography named ‘Soorma,’ which was released in 2018 and starred famed Punjabi singer and actor Diljit Dosanjh. He was also a judge on the MTV Roadies reality show.
He became famous following a miraculous recovery from a gunshot wound when he was 20 years old. Mr Singh was unintentionally shot on board a train to Delhi by an assistant sub-inspector of the Railways Police Force, only two days before the 2007 Hockey World Cup, rendering him paralysed from the waist down for a year.
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