judo player raped by coach - Amritsar

AMRITSAR: A budding judo player has alleged that she was repeatedly raped by her coach, who is absconding after the registration of a case, police said on Wednesday. The girl is a student of Class X here and the coach is a resident of Chheharta in Amritsar.

The girl said that the coach came to her house and persuaded her parents to send her to the camp despite the fact that she wasn’t feeling well. A judo camp of three weeks was scheduled from June 7 at Sundarnagar in Himachal Pradesh. The coach apparently came to pick the girl on June 9.

“The coach lied to her that the rest of the girls were waiting for her at the Amritsar railway station whereas the other participants had already left for Sundarnagar,” Amritsar police commissioner R P Mittal said.
Instead of taking her to the railway station, the coach took her to his house where he raped her and then took her to Kangra in Himachal the next day before dropping her at Sundarnagar. The coach forcibly kept the girl with him for two nights and three days, said Mittal.

The girl reached home on June 17 and told her parents about the incident. The parents approached the police and lodged a complaint against the coach. Mittal said that the police were conducting raids to arrest the coach.