A day after a fourth sport shooter dedicated suicide over the previous two months, 2008 Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra has written to the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation of India (NRAI) providing his assist to mentally situation rivals. On Wednesday, 26-year-old shooter Konica Layak’s physique was discovered hanging at a visitor home in Bally, Howrah.
“Prima facie, it’s a suicide case. We now have discovered a suicide word,” mentioned a police official. “It appears she wasn’t proud of the chance she was getting and was mentally depressed. Nonetheless, the probe is on.”
A case of unnatural loss of life has been registered, and the physique has been despatched for post-mortem. Layak’s case is the fourth such incident of a shooter committing suicide lately. State-level shooter Hunardeep Singh Sohal ended his life in October, as did Namanveer Singh Brar, who had gained bronze on the World College Video games. Final week, Khushseerat Kaur Sandhu, who competed on the Junior World Championships in October, ended her life.
Taking this into consideration, Bindra penned his letter addressed to NRAI president Raninder Singh.
“I’m writing to convey your variety consideration to latest incidents of athlete suicides within the nation. The information has startled me on a really private word and I really feel that to stop any additional lack of lives, we should act rapidly and responsibly,” learn the letter, which Bindra tweeted.
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“Athletes are additionally human; are susceptible to nervousness, melancholy, and must be given a protected and conducive environment to pursue excellence. Our intention is to assist athletes, coaches. By this letter, I want to provide the time and power of my staff to assist the athletes, coaches, directors, dad and mom, and others within the sporting ecosystem in want. I hope you’ll settle for my proposal and permit us to conduct just a few digital classes…specializing in the notice and psychological wellness of stakeholders in any respect ranges within the ecosystem.”
Layak was a Jharkhand-state gold medallist who had moved to Kolkata to coach below 2012 London Olympian Joydeep Karmakar since July. The Arjuna Awardee coach had invited her to coach below tutelage after stumbling upon a newspaper clipping describing her achievements.
“I examine her in some newspaper which talked about that she needs to coach in Kolkata at our academy. I received in contact along with her and determined to offer her admission totally free, and provides her 50 % off on all of the official expenses,” he mentioned.
Karmakar asserts Layak had been diligent in her coaching, however had not attended coaching classes for the previous 10-odd days. When contacted, Layak instructed her coaches that she had been sick and can re-join shortly.
“What I heard in the present day is that whereas she mentioned she wasn’t effectively, she had gone to attend a hostel-mate’s marriage ceremony exterior Kolkata, and that she solely received again to Kolkata the day earlier than yesterday,” he added. “That is what I received to know from the household. I don’t know what precisely transpired, however the police are investigating.”
Since becoming a member of the academy in July, Layak had been making fast strides by way of her abilities. “She was very uncooked when she first got here to the academy as a result of Dhanbad (her native) doesn’t precisely have a powerful setup. She was not ok for Bengal’s state degree again then, however she was keen and dedicated and she or he had been enhancing quickly. It took her simply 4 months to be ok to qualify for the GV Mavlankar Capturing Championships.”
Layak had been gifted a brand new rifle by actor Sonu Sood, who got here throughout her pleas on social media for assist to develop within the sport. Armed with the brand new weapon, she sharpened her abilities and travelled to Ahmedabad to the Mavlankar occasion – a stepping stone to the senior nationals.
Nonetheless, on the competitors in October, she was disqualified for alleged goal manipulation.
