五輪でメダル２個獲得のレスリング選手、殺人容疑で逮捕　インド

【ニューデリーＡＦＰ＝時事】インド警察は２３日、五輪で２個のメダルを手にしたレスリング選手、スシル・クマール容疑者（３７）を、別のレスリング選手を殺害した容疑で逮捕したと明らかにした。（写真はインド・ニューデリーで殺人容疑で逮捕されたスシル・クマール容疑者）
　今月４日、首都ニューデリーのスタジアムで、レスリング選手２グループの乱闘があり、激しく殴打されたサガル・ダンカド選手（２４）が病院に搬送された後で死亡。この他、ダンカド選手の仲間２人が負傷した。
　暴行に関与したとされたクマール容疑者は事件後行方をくらまし、警察が１週間にわたってその足取りを追っていた。警察は２３日朝、デリー北西部でクマール容疑者を逮捕。別の容疑者１人も逮捕された。
　警察はクマール容疑者の逮捕につながる情報の提供者に１０万ルピー（約１５万円）の報奨金を支払うと発表していた。クマール容疑者は弁護士を通じて、自分は無実であり、警察は予断をもって捜査していると主張している。
　クマール容疑者はレスリングの男子フリースタイルで、２０１２年ロンドン五輪で銀メダル、２００８年北京五輪で銅メダルを獲得した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/05/24-13:45）

Two-time Olympic wrestling medallist Sushil Kumar was arrested on Sunday, Indian police said, after a week-long manhunt over the alleged murder of a fellow athlete.
Kumar went into hiding after 24-year-old Sagar Dhankad was badly beaten during a brawl between two groups of wrestlers at a stadium in the capital New Delhi on May 4.
Dhankad, a former junior champion who was training as a senior wrestler, later died in hospital.
Kumar was arrested early Sunday in northwest Delhi with another suspect, Delhi police said.
They were switching their location when they were arrested, the police officer told AFP.
Police had offered a reward of 100,000 rupees ($1,370) for information leading to the arrest of the 37-year-old star after two of Dhankad's associates injured in the fight named Kumar as one of the attackers.
But Kumar, via his lawyers, had said he was innocent and accused police of a biased investigation.
Kumar is viewed as one of India's finest sportsmen and the only to win two individual Olympic medals -- a freestyle wrestling silver at the 2012 London Games and a bronze at the Beijing Olympics four years earlier.
He represented India in international competitions and won three Commonwealth Games golds and one gold at the World Wrestling Championships in Moscow in 2010.
He was awarded India's highest honour for athletes in 2009.