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A salient subordinate of India's shooting coaching staff, Ankush Bhardwaj, has been accused of intersexual harassment by a insignificant shooter, prompting the nationalist federation to suspend him.
NRAI (National Rifles Association of India) 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.
Mr. Bhatia said NRAI had recommended Bhardwaj 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 Mr. Bhatia.
Mr. Bhatia did not accidental erstwhile the incidental took spot but according to the FIR filed by the victim, she was targetted 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 served a doping prohibition successful 2010 for the usage of a beta-blocker during his competitory days.
