NEW DELHI: Wrestler Satender Malik has refused to apologise to international referee Jagbir Singh for abusing and hitting him during the selection trials for the Birmingham CWG here on Tuesday. The burly 125kg freestyle wrestler has, in fact, decided to quit wrestling and focus on his Air Force job with the Indian Armed Forces, if the decision to impose life ban on him wasn't overturned by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).
A day after his photos and videos hitting Jagbir went viral on social media, Satender – who hails from Haryana's Mokhra village – spoke exclusively with TOI on Wednesday, narrating the sequence of events which led to his physical assault on the referee. Satender also squarely put the blame for his violent outburst on 'Jury of Appeals' chairman Satyadev Malik, who incidentally recused himself from reviewing the video challenge on the pretext that it could lead to 'conflict of interest' charge against him since he belonged to the same village as that of the wrestler.
