New Delhi : Sports Authority of India does not rule out “foul play” in the incident involving four girl trainees at the SAI Center in Alappuzha in which one of them died. SAI Director General Injeti Srinivas.
In a tragic turn of events, a young athlete Aparna Ramabhadran died and three of her colleagues were admitted to hospital under critical conditions after they ate a poison fruit under an apparent suicide pact following alleged harassment by their seniors at the Water Sports Centre of the SAI in Alapuzha. “It is possible that there was some foul play. Something did happen. But would that lead to a situation to compel the young girls to take the extreme step of suicide, that law will decide. I had gone for an on spot administrative assessment on directives of Sports Minister. I will submit a report to the Sports Minister and he will take a call on what we need to do on our part,” Srinivas said.
“There was suicide pact, statement taken by the police from the surviving girls and other inmates. I cannot pre-empt these investigations and judicial process,” he added.
“I also visited the boys hostel and talked to the boys and they could not figure what could have gone wrong. All my enquiries reveal that they could not find the reason (of suicide),” he added. —PTI
