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Wrestler Satender Malik gets life ban for assaulting referee during CWG trials

In an unprecedented incident, Services' wrestler Satender Malik launched a physical assault on referee Jagbir Singh after losing the 125kg final during the Commonwealth Games trials, prompting the national federation to impose a life ban on him, here on Tuesday.

An incident of this magnitude has never taken place at an event organised by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) although clashes between the supporters of wrestlers have been witnessed in the past.

Jagbir Singh, later, filed an FIR at IP Estate Police Station against the wrestler.

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