The woman junior athletics coach who accused Haryana Sports Minister and former Olympian Sandeep Singh of sexual harassment has now registered a police complaint against the star former hockey player just a day later opening up on her plight.
The woman coach submitted her complaint to the city, SP Shruti Arora, after which she met SSP Manisha Chaudhary along. Following the tendering of her complaint, the woman interacted with the two IPS officers narrating the ordeals that she suffered due to the sports minister.
SP Arora while apprising the media over the matter said, “We received a complaint against the Haryana Sports Minister from a woman. We will investigate all the allegations thoroughly.”
An officer from the department went on to say “The complaint filed against the Haryana Sports Minister was marked to Sector 26 police station SHO for investigation. The SHO will examine all aspects of the complaint.”
Although the minister, Olympian, and the decorated ex-captain of the Indian Hockey side have termed all the allegations against him as baseless.
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It is pertinent to mention here that, with a cabinet reshuffle in BJP-ruled Haryana lined up ahead there exists a sheer possibility that Sandeep Singh might be dropped out from Khattar's cabinet owing to the case.
The complainant who had been part of India’s Rio Olympics squad said, “I was assured an impartial probe. I also raised my personal security concern. I have been receiving intimidating messages on my social media accounts. I have stopped attending phone calls. The minister harassed me between February and November in his office and other places. Once he conveyed to me to see him in Sector 7. Mostly he communicated through social media. He had touched me inappropriately at his cabin in his Chandigarh house. I narrated the sequence of events before the Chandigarh Police officers.”
On the plight that she has been subjected to in the state’s Sports Department further added, “I was forced to give an undertaking that I would fetch medals in an international event. I was told that if I failed, I will be shifted. I recently got transferred to Jhajjar, my home district, where there is no athletics track. Many others too are facing harassment in the department.”