Cricketers ought to inform the native administration or their staff safety officers when stepping out, Madhya Pradesh Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya mentioned. File | Picture Credit score: ANI
Cricketers ought to inform the native administration or their staff safety officers when stepping out, Madhya Pradesh Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya has mentioned, days later. two Australian ladies gamers have been allegedly stalked and molested in Indore.
“Gamers ought to hold the native administration or their safety (officers) knowledgeable when they’re going out. There’s a enormous craze for cricket gamers (in India), like it’s for soccer gamers in England. Gamers generally do not realize their fame however they’re very fashionable. They need to additionally watch out,” Mr. Vijayvargiya, additionally the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) MLA from Indore, instructed reporters.
“This incident is a lesson for each us and the gamers,” he mentioned.
Accused in custody
In the meantime, a court docket in Indore on Sunday (October 26) despatched the accused, Aqueel Khan, 29, to 14 days of judicial custody. Mr. Khan is accused of stalking and molesting by “touching inappropriately” two members of Australia’s ladies’s cricket staff, which was in Indore for the continued thirteenth version of the Ladies’s World Cup.
The accused has a prison report of 10 previous circumstances towards him, together with underneath the Arms Act and the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, Indore Extra Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rajesh Dandotiya instructed The Hindu,
The incident happened at about 11.30 am on Thursday, when the 2 gamers have been strolling to a restaurant at Khajrana Highway close to Indore’s Holkar cricket stadium.
Mr. Dandotiya mentioned that the accused was arrested on Thursday night time following an intensive operation supported by technical and human intelligence. The accused, a resident of Daulatbagh Colony, works as a painter
“We’ve additionally seized a bike that he used to stalk the gamers. It has no quantity plate,” Mr. Dandotiya mentioned, refuting media experiences {that a} bystander had famous the car quantity.
“The gamers, of their assertion, had talked about a person in a automobile who supplied to assist them after the incident. However no person had the accused’s car quantity or another substantial identification,” he added.
“We raided his home on Thursday night time however he was not there. We later pinned down on him with the assistance of human intelligence,” Mr. Dandotiya mentioned.
The accused “tried to run from a police staff and jumped right into a drain and sustained accidents, together with some fractures”, he added.
Printed – October 26, 2025 10:01 pm IST