Ace boxer Dingko Singh, who shot to fame by winning a gold medal at the 13th Asian Games held at Bangkok, was arrested by police for assaulting a woman athlete. Singh, an Arjuna awardee boxer, was arrested on Thursday night and produced before a court in Manipur on Friday. The court on Friday remanded him to 15 day judicial custody on the charges of assaulting the woman and outraging her modesty, police said.
“He was arrested under Section 324 and 354 of the IPC,” police said. Police said that the incident of assault took place on January 13 at the Khuman lampak sports complex in Imphal. The victim, a 17-year old athlete, alleged that she was assaulted brutally by the boxer on the charge of scribbling his name on his car’s dust covered registration plate, police said.