FIR lodged against Haryana Sports Minister Sandeep Singh for sexual harassment
A case of sexual harassment has been registered against Haryana Sports Minister Sandeep Singh following a complaint by an athletics coach.
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Sandeep Singh has been the former captain of the Indian national hockey team. Sandeep Singh was considered a penalty corner specialist. Because of which he got the surname “Flicker Singh”.
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At the age of 20, Sandeep Singh was accidentally shot on a Delhi-bound train just two days before the 2007 Hockey World Cup, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down for a year.
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Recovering from this bad phase, Sandeep Singh re-established himself in the Indian national team, and was the top scorer in the 2008 and 2009 Sultan Azlan Shah Cups, in which India won the gold medal in the latter.
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A biopic film titled Soorma based on the life of Sandeep Singh with Diljit Dosanjh was released in 2018. Sandeep Singh also appeared as a judge in the reality show MTV Roadies.
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Sandeep Singh was elected as the MLA from the Pehowa constituency of Haryana on a BJP ticket in the 2019 state assembly elections. Later he was sworn in as the Sports Minister in the Haryana cabinet.
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