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'Personal' Setback Behind Neeraj Yadav's Suicide? Police Reveals Startling Details
By: News18 Sports
Published: 28 October 2026
Photo / Illustration: Haldwani Times News Desk
<p>Hangzhou Asian Para Games gold medallist Neeraj Yadav’s suicide had brought some startling details to the fore, with the woman who took him to the hospital claiming that she was in a ‘friendship’ with him since December and had recently had a fallout, which the police are seeing as a possible reason for the death.</p>
<p>The Jafrabad Police Station is holding proceedings under Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita.</p>
<p>Although it was assumed that a career setback, a doping suspension, was the major reason for the suicide, the presence of a woman in the picture seems to have given the death a new angle.</p>
<p>A senior police officer said that the woman travelled to Sonipat in Haryana on Tuesday to meet Neeraj and told him that she could no longer stay in touch with him.</p>
<p>“Thereafter, Yadav dropped her at Maujpur, Delhi, in his Scorpio. At around 9 pm, the woman became suspicious and reached near Gate No. 1 of Maujpur Metro Station, where she found Yadav lying on the road beside his car," the police said.</p>
<p>“She subsequently took him to the hospital for medical assistance, where he was declared brought dead. Further inquiry revealed that Yadav was a para-athlete and was running an online sports academy in Sonipat under the name Anshneer Sports Academy," the police added.</p>
<p>His wife and their three-year-old daughter survive Neeraj.</p>
<p>Diagnosed with post-polio residual paralysis at the age of seven, Neeraj took up wheelchair tennis before transitioning to para-athletics, where he went on to compete at the international level.</p>
<p>Neeraj won three gold medals in the F55 category at the Asian Para Games, claiming the men’s javelin throw title in Jakarta in 2018 before bagging gold in both javelin and discus in Hangzhou in 2023.</p>
<p>Neeraj was serving a four-year ban after testing positive for a prohibited substance. The sanction cost him both gold medals from the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Para Games, along with the associated government cash reward and prospects of a government job.</p>
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<p>Police stated that a woman who was in a friendship with Neeraj Yadav met him in Sonipat to inform him that she could no longer stay in touch. She later found him lying near the Maujpur Metro Station and took him to the hospital, where he was declared brought dead.</p>
<p>Neeraj Yadav won three gold medals in the F55 category at the Asian Para Games, claiming the javelin title in Jakarta in 2018 and both javelin and discus gold in Hangzhou in 2023.</p>
<p>Neeraj Yadav was serving a four-year ban after testing positive for a prohibited substance, which cost him his 2023 Hangzhou Asian Para Games gold medals, government cash rewards, and government job prospects.</p>
