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A Delhi Court today dismissed the bail plea of Olympic wrestler Sushil Kumar in the murder case of junior wrestler Sagar Dhankar, who he is alleged to have "hunted like a wild animal" alongwith his associates.

Kumar is said to have engaged in an argument with Dhankar and engaging with him in an armed fight on the intervening night of May 4 and May 5, 2021.

While Sagar Dhankar succumbed to death on May 5, his friends sustained grave injuries. Kumar was arrested along with his associate Ajay Kumar, a physical education teacher at the Chhatrasal Stadium, by the Delhi Police.

The Delhi Police had filed an FIR against Sushil Kumar charging him of the offences of attempt to murder, culpable homicide amounting to murder, criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, robbery, rioting, amongst others.

In his bail plea submitted on Monday the Olympian had stated that the investigating agency has left no stone unturned in presenting a false and guilty image of Kumar and that he has wrongly received scrutiny despite no findings against him.

The petition further stated that Sushil has been remanded into custody since Jun 2 and accused the investigating agency of feeding false stories to the media to paint a grotesque image of a gangster out of him.

The Special Public Prosecutor Atul Kumar Srivastava told the court that Sushil Kumar and his associates were “behaving like wild animals on a hunt. They hunted him (Sagar) like wild pigs. He was flailing on the floor while they mercilessly beat him.”

Earlier, Sushil Kumar’s anticipatory bail plea was rejected by the court observing that charges against the accused are of a serious nature and the FIR reveals a prima facie case against the accused.

Cause Title: State v. Sushil Kumar