New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Thursday, November 10, issued notice to the Delhi police on two petitions seeking the cancellation of interim bail awarded to Olympic wrestler Sushil Kumar in the Chhatrasal Stadium murder case, according to a report in the Indian Express.The Delhi police had submitted that Kumar was the main conspirator in the May, 2021 murder of wrestler Sagar Dhankar. After absconding for three weeks, Kumar was arrested on June 2, 2021 and has been in prison since.A trial court in the national capital had accepted the wrestler’s plea for interim bail on humanitarian grounds on November 4 after it was submitted that he needed to facilitate his wife’s surgery and take care of her after the operation.At the time, additional sessions judge Shivaji Anand had acknowledged that Kumar’s wife would be dependent on others after the procedure and that since the couple has two children, Kumar’s presence would be required.The court, however, had acknowledged the perceived threat to witnesses in the murder case and Kumar himself and had thus directed for at least two security personnel to be posted at his residence at all times.Also read: Olympian Sushil Kumar to Face Murder Trial for Wrestler Sagar Dhankar’s DeathHowever, two petitions were filed in the Delhi high court thereafter; one by Dhankar’s father and one by another individual, challenging the trial court’s order. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav on Thursday sought the Delhi police’s responses on the two pleas.Kumar, a one-time bronze and one-time silver medalist at the Olympics, is accused, along with 17 others, of assaulting Dhankar at Delhi’s Chhatrasal Stadium over a property dispute. Dhankar eventually succumbed to the injuries and the post-mortem report revealed that he died due to cerebral damage from blunt force trauma to the head.After his arrest in June last year, Kumar applied for interim bail on two occasions before the most recent appeal, maintaining that he was being framed. The police, however, submitted in a status report that he was the “kingpin” in the assault and that he allegedly arranged for the weapons used.The police also opposed the wrestler’s second bail plea in March this year, noting that witnesses in the case were terrified of him and his associates and that one witness even moved court seeking protection.