The complainant stated Mr Singh had first seen her at a fitness center after which contacted her on Instagram.
New Delhi:
The Chandigarh police at the moment registered a sexual harassment and prison intimidation case towards Haryana Sports activities Minister Sandeep Singh, primarily based on a criticism by a junior athletics coach on Friday. The minister has resigned from his put up, and dismissed the allegations as an try to ‘spoil his picture’.
“There may be an try to spoil my picture. I hope there might be an intensive investigation into the false allegations levelled towards me. I hand over the duty of the Sports activities division to the Chief Minister till the report of the investigation comes out,” he stated.
The lady held a press convention on the workplace of the opposition occasion Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD), which has demanded that the Manohar Lal Khattar authorities instantly sack Sandeep Singh and arrange a Particular Investigation Staff to probe the matter. She stated the minister harassed her from February to November final yr, by repeated messages on social media. He touched her inappropriately and likewise threatened her in messages, she alleged, including that she needed to give up social media as a result of fixed harassment.
Senior Congress chief and former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had additionally demanded an neutral inquiry into the matter.
The complainant stated Mr Singh had first seen her at a fitness center after which contacted her on Instagram.
The minister later stored insisting that they meet up, she stated. “He messaged me on Instagram and stated my nationwide video games certificates is pending and wished to fulfill on this regard,” she added.
“Sadly, my certificates has been misplaced by my federation and I’ve been taking it up with the authorities involved.”
The lady stated she lastly agreed to fulfill him at his residence-cum-camp workplace right here with another paperwork she had, and alleged that when she went there, the minister indulged in sexual misconduct.
Sandeep Singh, sitting BJP MLA from Pehowa in Kurukshetra, can also be an expert area hockey participant, and was the captain of the Indian nationwide hockey group.
A biopic was launched primarily based on Mr Singh in 2018, titled ‘Soorma’, during which in style Punjabi singer and actor Diljit Dosanjh performed his function. He was additionally a decide on the truth TV present MTV Roadies.
He rose to fame after a miraculous restoration from a gun shot wound when he was 20. Mr Singh was by accident shot by an assistant sub-inspector of the Railways Police Pressure, on board a practice to Delhi, simply two days earlier than the 2007 Hockey World Cup, rendering him paralysed from the waist down for a yr.
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