Haryana: National shooting coach suspended after minor accuses him of sexual harassment; probe on

NEW DELHI: Ankush Bhardwaj, a subordinate of India’s shooting coaching staff, has been accused of intersexual harassment by a insignificant shooter, prompting the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) to suspend him, quality bureau PTI reported. The NRAI confirmed that an FIR has been filed against Bhardwaj successful Faridabad. "NRAI has suspended him and we volition contented a show-cause notice," NRAI caput Rajiv Bhatia told PTI. "He has been suspended connected motivation grounds. Now, helium has to beryllium himself innocent. Till the enquiry is not completed, helium volition not beryllium associated with immoderate coaching activity," helium added. Bhatia said Bhardwaj had been recommended by the NRAI for a spot successful the 37-strong coaching squad aft the Paris Olympics successful 2024. "It was connected the proposal of the NRAI that helium was appointed by SAI arsenic 1 of the coaches. It is simply a lawsuit of intersexual harassment which happened successful Surajkund," said Bhatia. The caput did not specify erstwhile the incidental took place. However, according to the FIR filed by the victim, she was targeted past period aft a grooming league astatine the Karni Singh Range. The girl, who has been grooming with Bhardwaj since August past year, stated that she was near traumatised by the incidental and spoke up successful beforehand of her parent connected January 1 aft being persistently probed. Bhardwaj, a erstwhile pistol shooter, had antecedently served a doping prohibition successful 2010 for the usage of a beta-blocker during his competitory days.