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Taunts had killed Indian woman boxer
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Nov 06 3:39 PM
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HYDERABAD: A woman boxer who represented the State is believed to have ended her life at the Centre of Excellence hostel of the Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh (SAAP) in the Lal Bahadur Stadium complex here today.
The boxer’s parents alleged that ``humiliation’’ by her coach, Omkar Nath Yadav, drove her to suicide, and SAAP and the State Government have ordered an inquiry into the incident.
AP Boxing Association secretary D B Manmohan said that the State had lost a promising boxer.
``The allegations need to be investigated and the culprits punished,’’ he said.
For their part, the police said the circumstances leading to the death of the boxer, S Amaravathi (20) belonging to Chintal Basthi in the city, are being ascertained.
According to SAAP Vice-Chairman and Managing Director V Radha, around 9:30 a.m., the warden, Kamala, went to Amravati’s room on the second floor and found it locked from inside. When the hostel staff forced open the door, they found her lying dead with froth oozing out of the mouth. Amaravathi had been staying in the women’s hostel for the past three years and was currently the only boxer lodged there.
“Another woman boxer used to stay in the hostel but left some months back following an ankle injury,’’ Radha said.
“A fair and impartial inquiry would be conducted by Dronacharya and Arjuna awardees into the death of Amaravathi,’’ she said.
SAAP officials said they had never received any written or oral complaint from Amaravathi over the alleged humiliation by her coach, even as sports minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy said an inquiry would be conducted into the death.
“We did not find any bottle of poison or sleeping pills in the room.
Samples of the vomit will be sent for forensic examination,’’ Central Zone DCP P Hari Kumar said.
Amaravathi is said to have told her elder brother, Shankar Sai Baba, about being taunted by Omkar Nath Yadav after the recent senior national championship in Jamshedpur.
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