Wrestler Sushil Kumar to now teach wrestling to inmates in Tihar Jail
Wrestler Sushil Kumar to now teach wrestling to inmates in Tihar Jail
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New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medal winner Sushil Kumar, who is lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail, will teach wrestling and physical fitness to his fellow inmates. The jail officials said this step is now being taken after the decline in corona infection cases in the jail premises. The Tihar Jail administration has clarified that the strategy to involve Sushil Kumar in sports activities had already been devised. But in view of the third wave of Corona, this work could not be done. 

It may be recalled that Sushil Kumar and his associate Ajay Kumar were arrested in connection with the murder of Sagar Dhankad on May 23, 2021, at Chhatrasal Stadium. Sushil Kumar and his friends had assaulted wrestler Sagar Dhankhar and his associates on the night of May 4-5. In which the life of a wrestler named Sagar Dhankhar was lost.

According to information received from jail authorities, Sushil Kumar is a professional wrestler. In such a situation, many prisoners of the jail will also learn from them the tricks of fitness and wrestling. Jail officials say that this will also keep the prisoners healthy and they will also have positive mental thinking. Tihar Jail has been conducting many types of sports and competitions in the past. Under the CSR project of Indian Oil Corporation Limited, the inmates in the jail were being trained to play kho-kho, volleyball, badminton, basketball, chess and carom.  

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