In the case of Olympian wrestler Sushil Kumar, the Supreme Court on August 13, 2025, cancelled his bail in the murder of Sagar Dhankar and has asked him to surrender within one week. It was arrived at following a request by the father of the victim, Ashok Dhankad, who accused Kumar of threatening a key witness during his interim bail. The case goes back to May 4, 2021, when a junior national wrestling champion, Sagar Dhankar, at the age of 23 years, was reportedly assaulted by Sushil Kumar and a group of his associates over a dispute over property in New Delhi at the stadium Chhatrasal. Later the same night, Dhankar died because of the head injuries he had sustained. In May 2021, Kumar was arrested and has been under judicial custody for more than three years. The further trial proceeded slowly, and he received regular bail in March 2025 in the Delhi High Court due to extensive imprisonment and a small percentage of witnesses called in. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court indicated that the intimidation accusations created a grave threat to the fair nature of the trial. The Court enhanced the principle that personal liberty under bail should be balanced with the need to protect witnesses and the judicial integrity of serious criminal cases by withdrawing the bail.