National player returns home to take on abusers

Raipur: Frequent harassment by her neighbour drove a former national woman hockey player to flee home, police said on Wednesday. The player who played for Indian in junior hockey team in 2010, however “regained” her will power to return home almost 48 hours after she fled her house in disgust on Monday, to “fight it out like a true sportsperson”

“I told myself I am not going to quit (fighting). I will continue my battle against my tormentors till law catches them. Hence, I decided to return home to take on the molester and his supporters”, investigator in the case, Virendra Chaturverdi, quoted the player, who produced herself before the police after returning home on Wednesday, as saying.

The incident has shocked sports fraternity in the city here. According to Mr Chaturvedi, the player, earlier on September 17, had lodged a complaint with the Civil Lines police accusing her neighbour Nilesh Kurre, 28, of passing dirty comments.

She has also charged Madhu Kurre, wife of the accused and her landladies, Manju Singh and Mamata Singh with instigating Nilesh to sexually harass her. “We have arrested the four accused under relevant Sections of IPC. While three women accused were let off on bail immediately on furnishing personal bonds, Nilesh was sent to judicial custody. He also later walked free after getting bail from the court”, Mr Chaturvedi said.

However, her daring step to bring her tormentors to book had rather worsened her plight with the four accused further heaping abuses on her. Later, out of frustration, she decided to flee her home to escape her almost daily ordeal. She had left a two-page note narrating her ordeal before leaving her home. The player, whose father works in a private company, is a BA student.