Punjab Wrestler Bags Battal Ballian Kesari Title

State Times

JAMMU: Punjab wrestler, Pamma of Dera Baba Nanak clinched the 2nd Annual Battal Ballian Kesari Title defeating Benia of Basantgarh in district Udhampur in the main bout that lasted for 16 minutes at Battal in district Udhampur.  Dangal was organised by Pir Baba Dangal Committee in association with J and K Indian Style Wrestling Association under the supervision of Shiv Kumar Sharma, president J and K Indian Style Wrestling Association. Winner Pamma received cash prize of Rs 10,000 while runner up wrestler Benia given away Rs.5,000 by chief guest, Shiv Kumar Sharma and guests of honour, Deep Singh and SHO Udhampur, Arvind Sambyal.  In the second main bout wrestler Gurvinder of Garh Shanker (Punjab) beat wrestler Roshan Lal of Muthi (Jammu) of J&K Police. Gurvinder bagged a cash prize of Rs. 5,000, Pahalwan Roshan got Rs. 3,000. Third bout ended in a draw between wrestler Onkar Singh of BSF of Kathua and Baj of Dera Baba Nanak.
Members of organising committee and those technical officials who helped in smooth conduct of this Dangal were Deep Singh, Capt. (Retd.) Dhiyan Singh, Vijay Kumar, Kuldeep Kumar, Raj Singh, Sukhdev Singh, Sikander Singh, Rangeel Singh, Moona Khan Master, Swarn Singh, Darshan Singh, Waryam Singh, Capt. Lehar Singh (Retd.), Mohd. Fareed and Om Parkash Sharma (N.I.S Wrestling Police Coach).
Other Results: Tirthu beat Billu, Jammet Lal (Akhnoor) beat Ram Sewak (U.P), Baboo (Jindrah) beat Vijay (Mathura), Shiv Singh (M.P) beat Gopal (Jindrah), Gudu (U.P) beat Gopi (Amritsar), Billu (Jindrah) beat Rajban (M.P), Nasib Singh (Mohare) beat Prem Verma (Jhiri), Kuldeep Singh (Ramnagar) beat Jatinder (Mathura), Pawan Kumar (J&K Police) beat Vijay Singh (U.P), Surinder (Mathura) beat Rajesh (J and K Police), Naresh beat Vijay, Sukha (Ludhiana) beat Laket Ali (Panthal), Kulbir Singh (Kot Bhawal Jammu) beat Ballu (Dera Baba Nanak), Lalli (Garh Shanker) beat Shahia (Ramnagar), Tirthu (Manwal) beat Billu (Kot Bhawal), Lal Chand beat Surma Singh, Bobari (Jammu) beat Lalli (Dera Baba Nanak), Rakesh (Delhi) beat Yasheen (Jammu), Akram (Jammu) beat Kuldeep singh (Ladha), Pradhald Singh (Kalakote) beat Pawan Kumar (Rohtak), Rinku (Bani Basohli) beat Subhash (Panipat), Inderjeet (Garh Shanker) beat Murad Ali (Jammu), Qasim Din (Billu) beat Lalla (Delhi), Gulshan Singh (J and K Police) beat Raju (Kapurthalla), Sonu (J and K Police) beat Situ (Ramnagar).
Bouts between Ashok Kumar (Haryana) and Sujan Ali (Jammu), Ajay Sharma (Landon Power House) and Dillar Khan (Jammu, Akram (Jammu) and Swarn Singh (Kot Bhalwal, Jammu), Dana (Ajnala) and Anil Kumar (J and K Police) and Mukha (Dina Nagar) and Yesha (Dera Baba Nanak ) ended in draw.