A file photograph of Union Minister of Sports activities, Youth Affairs and Info and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur
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Union Sports activities Minister Anurag Thakur stated that his Ministry has taken notice of an alleged bodily assault on ladies footballers by an official throughout the ongoing Indian Girls’s League.
Palak Verma and Ritika Thakur, two gamers of Khad FC, accused Deepak Sharma, the final secretary of Himachal Pradesh Soccer Affiliation, of bodily assault on March 28. Reacting to the information, the Union Minister posted on X, “The Ministry of Sports activities has taken a severe notice of an alleged bodily assault upon ladies footballers by an official throughout the ongoing Indian Girls’s League in Goa.”
He stated that the protection and safety of gamers was the highest precedence. “All India Soccer Federation (AIFF) has been directed to take fast motion and make sure the security and safety of our footballers. The Ministry has additional directed AIFF to take robust authorized motion and inform the Ministry about actions taken. The security and safety of gamers are our utmost precedence,” he stated within the tweet.
Verma and Thakur have been allegedly assaulted by Sharma, who was in a drunken state, on Thursday night time (March 28) in Goa. The gamers filed a criticism with the AIFF the subsequent day, requesting fast motion as they have been ‘scared for his or her lives’.
Himachal Pradesh’s Khad FC is taking part in within the inaugural version of Indian Girls’s League 2. Verma has led the staff in two of its three matches thus far.
The criticism, whose copy Sportstar has learn, says, “Because the dinner was over, we have been boiling eggs as we didn’t get dinner. Mr. Deepak Sharma obtained offended and stormed into our room and slapped me (Palak) and Ritika and assaulted us bodily. From the primary day, he was once in an inebriated (drunken) state.”
Sharma is an government committee member of the AIFF, the deputy chairperson of the competitors committee and as per the federation’s web site, he’s additionally the chairperson of the federation’s infrastructure committee.
The incident turned public on March 29 and the match commissioner, Sujesh Rajan, took cognizance of the difficulty and reached out to the Goa Soccer Affiliation, the host federation, for fast motion. Jonathan D’Sousa, the vp of GFA, instructed Sportstar, that the Basic Secretary and the Match Commissioner met the women and did a preliminary investigation. They forwarded their report back to the AIFF.
The GFA additionally filed a criticism on the Mapusa police station inside hours. “As an organizer and as a part of the GFA, we felt that we must always at the very least inform the police that so and so incident has occurred. Now, the regulation has to comply with this course of,” D’Sousa stated.
