CHANDIGARH: Olympian wrestler Anshu Malik on Tuesday asserted that she has been targeted in a "significant conspiracy" aimed at tarnishing her reputation. This comes after Haryana police apprehended a man from Hisar for allegedly disseminating a video containing a manipulated image of the female wrestler on social media.
The police clarified on Monday that the 30-second video clip had no connection to the woman wrestler, and the accused had used her name while sharing it.
The accused, identified as Amit and hailing from Hisar district, was taken into custody in Barwala after the wrestler's father filed a complaint with the Jind police, as reported by Jind's deputy superintendent of police, Ravi Khundia, on Monday.
"I am not in that video. It is an attempt to defame me; it is a big conspiracy against me," Anshu said in a video message on Tuesday.
She said the couple in that video had already given their statement to the police.
"The accused person has been arrested. Police took swift action in the matter," said the wrestler.
However, after seeing the morphed video clip the accused circulated on social media, people have been making lewd comments.
"Do these people not think even once what I and my family will have to go through, what mental trauma we will go through. Without knowing what the truth is, they declared me guilty in front of the society," she said.
"My parents taught me to do something for the country, telling me that people should remember you for what you do for the nation," she said.
She also said her parents left their jobs to enable her to fulfill her dreams.
"In the video, the accused used the wrestler's morphed photo. The video clip is of another man and a woman. The man in that video... his clarification has come. He has stated that he was with his female friend.
"The woman in the video circulated on social media is not the wrestler. The man who figures in that video has also categorically said that he has not even met the wrestler," DSP Khundia had said on Monday.
(With PTI inputs)
