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JAMMU: Manna of Chandigarh clinched the 12th Katra-Nelay Kesari Dangal beating Nisar of Doda in the main bout. Dangal was organized by Dangal Committee Nelay in collaboration with J&K Indian Style Wrestling Association.
In the second main bout, wrestler Zaker of Sarore defeated Sandeep of Master Chandigi Ram Akhara Delhi while Farooq of Sarore emerged winner in the third bout after he defeated Babba of Kot Bhalwal of Domana Akhara. In fourth bout Gurpreet of Chandigarh outplayed Ajay Sharma of Landen Power House Udhampur.
Winner of the title bout was presented with Rs 7.500 cash prize while runners-up, Nisar got Rs 5500 as prize money from the organisers. In all, 36 bouts played in this day-long competition.
The MLA Reasi, Ajay Nanda was Chief Guest, who distributed cash prize among the winner and runners-up wrestlers. Treasurer Indian Style Wrestling Association of India, Shiv Kumar Sharma presided. Dy SP Katra, Dr Ashok Sharma and SHO, Kuldeep Krishan as also Pawan Dev Singh were Guests of Honour.
Prominent among others present were Varinder Badyal, Naresh Kumar (Pappu Lakri), Sham Singh, Rattan Singh, Vishal Sharma, Om Parkash Verma, Ramesh Chander (Bobby), Sansar Chand and Sham Lal.
Members and technical officials who helped for conduct of this dangal included Kuldeep Kumar Sanmotra, Pinku Sharma, Radha, Mani Ram, Naresh Kumar (Pappu Lakri), Mohd Fareed, Deepak Wazir, Vijay Singh (Biju), Murli Dhar, Subash Chander and Raj Singh.
Other Results: Shanker of Delhi beat Kalu of Bishnah, Gurpreet of Chandigarh beat Roshan Lal of J&K Police, Lalla of Delhi beat Gopal Sharma of Jindrah, Babri of Surore beat Dinu of Kathua, Balli of Jammu beat Bagga of Punjab, Salman of Hamirpur beat Hosiar Singh of Mahore, Pankaj of Delhi beat Jakker of Jammu. Wrestler Shanker Master Chandigi Ram Akhara Delhi won four bouts all by fall and declared Best wrestler of the Dangal.
