Rohtak: Three weeks ago, Pooja Sihag was celebrating on podium with a bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games 2022 at Birmingham. But life took a horrible turn for the wrestler on Saturday night when her husband Ajay Nandal died under mysterious circumstances.
According to eye witnesses, a group of people were drinking alcohol near Maharani Kishori Jat Kanya Mahavidyalaya when the incident took place.
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t was learnt that Nandal was with three other men when he passed away. Two others – identified as Sonu and Ravi — are in critical condition.
Nadal’s father claimed a drug overdose involving Nandal’s friend Ravi led to his death.
Rohtak DSP Mahesh Kumar informed that Nadal’s body has been sent for post-mortem.
Police have begun investigation and are awaiting the post-mortem report.
Nandal, a resident of Garhi Bohar village in Haryana’s Rohtak, was also a wrestler and an Army officer.
The 25-year-old Pooja bagged bronze in 76kg freestyle category at CWG earlier this month after outplaying Naomi de Bruine of Australia 11-0 to clinch the third spot.
Pooja was also a bronze-medallist in the 2021 Asian Championships in Almaty and silver-medallist in the Asian U-23 Championships in 2019.