17-year-old Ritika, a cousin of Olympic wrestler Geeta Phogat, was found dead in Charkhi Dadri, Haryana.
Police said the teen wrestler lost the Rajasthan state level wrestling championship on March 14 by a narrow margin.
Sub-inspector Dilbag Singh, the station house officer of Jhujhan Kalan, said that she was found hanging at her uncle and great wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat’s house on 15 March. The incident came to light when she did not get up for dinner and the family members went to investigate her.
The post-mortem was done and the dead body was handed over to the next of kin. Coming from Rajasthan, the teenager had been living with Phogat since 2016 and was training at a wrestling academy run by Mr. Phogat. “He was determined to win the championship, but a narrow defeat disappointed him.” Her cousin Babita Phogat, a Commonwealth gold medalist wrestler, said in a tweet, “It was a moment of sorrow for the whole family.”
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