Nipon Das, Hima Das’ Coach has been accused of sexual assault by another athlete who trained under him in Guwahati. The coach dismissed the allegations saying that the charges are ‘false and fabricated’.
Nipon trained the athlete at the Indira Gandhi Athletics Stadium in the Assam capital.
In her police complaint, the athlete said that she had been sexually assaulted by Nipon in the middle of May. The local police had filed an FIR on the complaint of the woman who is around 20-year-old and interrogated Nipon. The complaint was filed on June 22.
However, Nipon, Hima’s coach when she won a Gold medal in a track event at the World Junior Athletics Championships in 2018 dismissed the claim.
‘This woman athlete who runs 100m and 200m trains under me and she was always after me to get her into the Assam team. I could not do that because there are other girls who are better than her. She was not included in the state team in National Inter-State Championships and that is why she filed the complaint on false and fabricated grounds,’ Nipon told PTI from Guwahati.
He said police investigation is underway and that he is confident of coming out clean. ‘ I have not been arrested by police so far. I had been taken to the police station once and I was interrogated, that is all. If I am guilty and have committed some offence I should be punished and I am ready for that but here I have not done anything wrong,’ he said.