Former athlete Iqbal Singh, who won a bronze medal in the Asian Championship for the country, has been arrested in the US for the murder of his wife and mother. This information has been given in the media. Officers are quoted as saying that 62-year-old Iqbal Singh, a resident of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, called the police on Sunday morning and confessed to his crime.
The report said that when the police reached Iqbal's residence in Newtown Township, they saw that he was blood-soaked and had also hurt himself. The bodies of 2 women were lying inside the residence. It has been said that Iqbal was charged with murder on Monday and has been kept in custody. He is not getting bail. He has not used the services of any advocate to present his case.
Iqbal was a ball throwing athlete and he won a bronze medal in the Asian Athletics Championships in Kuwait in 1983. This was the biggest achievement of his sports career. Then he settled in America. According to US media reports, he was working as a taxi cab driver. According to media reports, Iqbal was taken to the hospital for treatment where he has been taken into police custody.
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