National hockey team captain Sardar Singh is the subject of a sexual harassment case filed in Ludhiana by an global hockey player of Indian origin, reports The Indian Express.
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Sardar and Ashpal are said to have met during the 2012 London Olympics, where India had finished last. “We got engaged but in 2015 I got pregnant”, she said, adding that during the World Hockey League in Antwerp previous year, Sardar had assaulted her at a hotel. She also accuses Sardar of “blackmail, mental harassment and physical harassment”. She said the hockey skipper forced her to go for abortion and after that he started avoiding her.
On the criminal complaint by the woman, a former hockey player herself, Ludhiana police commissioner has marked an inquiry. I don’t want to speak about his hockey career. Sardar was quoted, as saying. “My focus is on Rio Games”, Sardar said. The maternal family of the player lives near Bhaini Sahib and the woman has alleged that they met during visits to this religious sect guru. “FIR has not been registered as investigation is going on”, he said.
“I and Sardar have been together for four years and I am his fiancee…now he is betraying me”, the woman told ETV. She stated that they got engaged but later he refused to marry her and has since stopped taking her calls too. He stopped talking to me after that incident and has refused to marry me.
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Sardar is presently part of the Delhi Waveriders squad, at the ongoing Hockey India League.
