Sonipat: Soon after media reports surfaced that Nisha Dahiya and her brother were short dead at the Sushil Kumar Academy in Haryana’s Sonipat, the national-level wrestler issued a video message saying she is in Gonda at the moment to play senior nationals. In the video message, she said that she is doing fine and the news of her death is fake.
“I am in Gonda to play senior nationals. I am alright. It’s a fake news (reports of her death). I am fine,” wrestler Nisha Dahiya said in a video issued by Wrestling Federation of India.
#WATCH | "I am in Gonda to play senior nationals. I am alright. It's a fake news (reports of her death). I am fine," says wrestler Nisha Dahiya in a video issued by Wrestling Federation of India.
(Source: Wrestling Federation of India) pic.twitter.com/fF3d9hFqxG
— ANI (@ANI) November 10, 2021
Earlier in the day, a fake news was circulated that Nisha and her brother were shot dead by unknown assailants at Sushil Kumar Wrestling Academy in Sonipat’s Halalpur.
The reports also claimed that Nisha’s mother Dhanpati was injured during the incident and is in critical condition.
It must be noted that Nisha Dahiya had on Friday bagged a bronze medal in 65 kg at Wrestling U-23 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. PM Modi had praised her along with other women wrestlers for their breakthrough performance.
“Congratulations to Shivani, Anju, Divya, Radhika and Nisha for winning medals at the Wrestling Championships in Belgrade. Their performance is special and will contribute to wrestling becoming even more popular across India,” PM Modi had tweeted.
Prior to this, Nisha Dahiya won a gold medal at the cadet National Championships in 2014 in Srinagar. She had won her first international medal in 2014 when she returned with a bronze in the 49kg category from Asian Championships. She had also won a silver in 60kg category next year. And in 2015, she won a bronze at the National Championships in 2015.
Soon after winning the bronze medal, Nisha Dahiya had tested positive for meldonium, a drug which was banned by World Anti-Doping Agency in 2016. After the incident, Nisha faced a four-year ban. However, she was about to get a Railways job after having won cadet medals and National Championships bronze in 2015 but the job scope slipped after the doping ban.
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