Trainee wrestler, brother shot dead in Haryana

Initially mistaken for her national-level namesake, police said Nisha Dahiya’s killer is absconding

A 21-year-old Haryana-based trainee wrestler, Nisha Dahiya, and her 18-year-old brother, were shot dead by the former’s coach, while her mother was left severely injured, on Wednesday, inside a wrestling academy on the outskirts of Halalpur village in Sonipat, the Haryana Police said.

After news broke of the death, it was attributed to the national-level wrestler by the same name, Nisha Dahiya, who recently won the bronze medal in the 72 kg weight class at the Under-23 World Wrestling Championships 2021 in Belgrade, receiving praise from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Ms. Dahiya, in a video put out by the Wrestling Federation of India, said that she was in Gonda in U.P. to participate in the senior nationals contest and was doing fine. Ms. Dahiya also went live on her official Instagram handle to communicate this.