Delhi high court grants bail to wrestler Sushil Kumar in Sagar Dhankar murder case | Delhi News

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted common bail to Olympic medalist wrestler Sushil Kumar in the Sagar Dhankar murder case after spending over three and a half years in custody.
Justice Sanjeev Narula accredited the bail on a bond of Rs 50,000 with two sureties of the identical quantity.
Sushil Kumar, together with different accused, is going through trial for the murder of junior wrestler Sagar Dhankar, who was allegedly overwhelmed on the Chhatrasal Stadium on May 4, 2021. Dhankar later succumbed to his accidents.
Kumar’s authorized representatives, advocates R S Malik and Sumeet Shokeen, argued that their shopper has been in custody for greater than three and a half years. They additionally identified that solely 30 out of 186 prosecution witnesses have been examined in the final three years.
The court’s detailed order is but to be uploaded. Previously, Kumar was granted a seven-day interim bail in July 2023 for knee surgical procedure.
Sushil Kumar has had a distinguished athletic profession, profitable a bronze medal on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a silver medal on the 2012 London Olympics, making him one in all India’s most profitable athletes.
The case entails a number of victims who had been allegedly assaulted on the stadium that evening, with Dhankar’s loss of life being the first focus of the investigation.