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Coach, gymnast booked for sexual harassment: Sports Ministry orders probe

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ANI New Delhi
Last Updated : Sep 17 2014 | 8:10 PM IST

With a woman gymnast alleging that a coach and an international level player passed obscene comments and made vulgar gestures at her during practice sessions at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex, Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday said that an enquiry has been ordered in this regard.

"We have seen in the newspaper that there was a complaint from her end and we have ordered an enquiry into this and given the responsibility to the Director General," he said.

A woman player has lodged an FIR against her coach and another national gymnast for passing obscene comments against her.

The victim said that the incident took place when she had gone for practice at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in Delhi.

"I was in the old gymnastic centre on 2nd September where Manoj Rana, who is the national coach, and Chandan Pathak who is a national player who was attending the Indian camp, he too, was in that hall and they started molesting me," she said.

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First Published: Sep 17 2014 | 8:03 PM IST

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