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ROHTAK: In a span of 48 hours, 2 teenage hoops players died successful horrific accidents successful Haryana’s Rohtak and Bahadurgarh aft hoop poles collapsed connected them, turning courts into transgression scenes and throwing aharsh spotlight connected Haryana’s sports infrastructure and governance.
District sports serviceman Anoop Singh has been suspended.A heart-wrenching CCTV video captured the decease of 16-year-old schoolboy Hardik Rathi — a fivetime authorities player, selected for the U-17 School Nationals successful Chhattisgarh — successful Lakhan Majra, adjacent Rohtak, connected Tuesday. In the 9-second clip, helium runs successful from the three-point line, simulates a dunk, and grabs the hoop for a 2nd — acommon wont with players. Even successful the grainy footage, 1 tin spot the fearfulness successful his eyes erstwhile the 750kg rod snaps, takes him down, and crushes his ribs.
Tragedy didn’t travel without warning, accidental sportspersons
Other players sprinted to Hardik’s assistance and took him to infirmary wherever helium was declared ‘brought dead’. At Lakhan Majra, determination is anguish & choler implicit the “avoidable tragedy”. Just 2 days earlier, determination was an ominous informing erstwhile 15-year-old Aman, a Class 10 student, died successful akin manner astatine Bahadurgarh’s Shaheed Brigadier Hoshiar Singh stadium, immoderate 65km from Lakhan Majra.Aman was practising connected Sunday day erstwhile a corroded hoops rod gave mode & crashed onto his abdomen, causing terrible interior injuries.
The rod had allegedly been successful a dilapidated information for a agelong time. He was taken to the civilian infirmary and past to PGI-Rohtak. His household alleged that hold and negligence successful attraction worsened his condition. The lad died connected Monday nighttime and his past rites were performed connected Tuesday evening — erstwhile Lakhan Majra was mourning Hardik.Hardik had won a metallic astatine the 47th Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship successful Kangra, a bronze astatine the 49th Sub-Junior Nationals successful Hyderabad and different bronze astatine the 39th Youth National Championship successful Puducherry.Villagers and sportspersons constituent retired the calamity did not travel without warnings. Four years ago, past Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda had sanctioned Rs 11 lakh from his MPLAD money to the Lakhan Majra panchayat for the stadium but attraction wasn’t carried retired arsenic the tender formalities were stuck for years. A delegation met CM Nayab Saini astir 3 months agone connected this, and the tender was yet floated past week —too precocious for Hardik.The Lakhan Majra stadium is nether the colony panchayat, and a sports nursery has been moving connected the hoops tribunal for a agelong time. After Hardik’s death, this nursery has been shut, and a committee has been formed to probe the incidental and audit sports equipment. Police person seized the CCTV footage & initiated enactment nether BNS.Shaken by the duplicate deaths, the Olympic relation has announced that nary sports lawsuit volition beryllium held successful the authorities for the adjacent 3 days.
Sports curate Gaurav Gautam has called a high-level gathering connected Nov 28 astatine Panchkula’s Tau Devi Lal Stadium with each territory sports officers and elder officials to reappraisal accountability lapses, information protocols and urgent reforms.The sports section has ordered contiguous removal of each rusted, aged and unsafe instrumentality crossed the state. A circular issued by the manager wide directed each sports officers, Motilal Nehru School of Sports successful Rai, and lawman directors crossed Ambala, Hisar, Rohtak and Gurgaon to transportation retired urgent inspections and dismantle unsafe structures without delay.The deaths triggered a terrible governmental backlash. Former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda accused BJP govt successful Haryana of treating sports and athletes “like enemies”. “Govt negligence led to the decease of 2 promising young players. Hardik was a national-level subordinate with a agleam future, having already signed with a nine successful the United States,” helium said.
