Jammu, February 15, 2020: ADGP Armed J&K Shri A.K. Choudhary-IPS felicitated JKP Badminton team for winning one Gold & two Silver Medal in 12th All India Police Badminton Championship 2019. The Championship organized by BPR&D was held at Central Academy for Police Training, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh from 3rd to 9th February, 2020.
While congratulating the players and the team captain, the ADGP appreciated the hard work and dedication of the participants for achieving the remarkable milestone in the championship in parallel to their day to day routine professional duties. The ADGP also instructed the supervisory officers of the police sports activities that pre-participation camps for practice of all CSTs should be properly devised and included in the annual sports calendar in order to shape & sharpen the skills and capability of the players in their respective fields of interest. He further added, that DGP J&K Shri Dilbag Singh is enthusiastic to promote the sports culture in the Police department to maintain the physical / mental fitness of the Jawans.
The felicitation ceremony held at Armed Police Hqrs J&K Jammu today was attended by senior Police Officers of APHQ J&K including Shri Dushyant Sharma-SSP Staff Officer to ADGP Armed, Shri Zahid Ahmad Lone, DySP Sports APHQ besides the Badminton Team Captain-cum-Manager Shri Sanjeev Khajuria-SSP Commandant IRP 5th Bn and players who excelled in the championship viz Ms. Basanti Bhat Inspector CID CI Jammu & Ms. Kirti Sharma Inspector District Police Lines Jammu, Shri Vinay Gupta Sub-Inspector GRP Jammu and HC Sukhdev Singh DPL Jammu.
The first pair of JKP Badminton Team Players comprising Inspector Basanti Bhat & HC Sukhdev Singh defeated Tamilnadu Police in the Semi-final whereas the 2nd pair of JKP Badminton team players comprising Inspector Kirti Sharma & SI Vinay Gupta defeated BPR&D Team in the semi-final thus both the teams of JKP reached to the final. In the final match played between the two teams of JKP, the 1st team comprising Inspector Basanti Bhat & HC Sukhdev Singh emerged as winner and won the Gold Medal whereas 2nd team comprising Inspector Kirti Sharma & SI Vinay Gupta emerged as runner-up and won Silver Medal in the XD-45 event of the championship. Further Inspector Basanti Baht also won one Silver Medal in the women veteran category. This is for the first time that JKP badminton players have achieved such a remarkable feat in the All India Police Badminton Championships so far organized across the country.