NEW DELHI: India police reportedly arrested a judo coach who had repeatedly raped a female player he coached, local media reported on Thursday. According to police, the girl reported the incident to her parents, who informed the authorities of the sexual violence. Times of India reported that the girl is a student of Class X here and the coach is a resident of Chheharta in Amritsar. The girl was reported to have said that the coach came to her house and persuaded her parents to send her to the camp. A judo camp of three weeks was scheduled from June 7 at Sundarnagar in Himachal Pradesh. The coach apparently came to pick the girl on June 9. “The coach lied to her that the rest of the girls were waiting for her at the Amritsar railway station whereas the other participants had already left for Sundarnagar,” Amritsar police commissioner R P Mittal said. Instead of taking her to the railway station, the coach took her to his house where he raped her and then took her to Kangra in Himachal the next day before dropping her at Sundarnagar. The coach forcibly kept the girl with him for two nights and three days, said Mittal. The girl reached home on June 17 and told her parents about the incident. The parents approached the police and lodged a complaint against the coach. Mittal said that the police were conducting raids to arrest the coach. It is the latest incident of sexual violence in the country, which has raised alarming concerns among women's advocates in the country who are pressing the government to introduce new legislation to crackdown on the rising sexual violence, assaults and rapes being reported across India.
