KOLKATA: On a day the wrestlers took out a candlelight march in New Delhi, demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Sports Authority of India (SAI) suspended Mrinal Basumatary, in-charge of the SAI Training Centre (STC), Solal Gaon, Assam, for sexually harassing ladies athletes.
“Acting on our zero-tolerance policy towards sexual harassment, SAI has taken cognisance of a case of sexual harassment at the SAI Training centre in Assam’s Solal Gaon and has suspended the coach in question with immediate basis,” SAI mentioned in an announcement.
The native police additionally transferred the case to North Lakhimpur police station for motion in opposition to Basumatary, who additionally occurs to be the swimming coach on the SAI centre.
It was a lady weightlifting coach, who made the primary grievance to Satyajit Sankrit, the manager director of SAI Regional Centre, Guwahati.