Bangladeshi fan sent back after controversy over Kanpur incident | Cricket News

Bangladesh cricket fan Rabi-ul-Islamalso popularly called Tiger Robiwas “deported” to his country, sources said on Saturday, a day after he stoked a controversy by claiming he was attacked during the attack at the stadium in Kanpur India-Bangladesh test match and later withdrew his claim. However, Additional DCP (Local Intelligence Unit) Rajesh Kumar Srivastava said Robi, who was suffering from metastatic cancer, had come to India on a medical visa and authorities had facilitated his journey home on his request.
Robi was escorted by police officers to Chakeri airport and remained there until his flight to Delhi took off on Saturday. The Bangladeshi national took a flight from Delhi airport to Dhaka in the afternoon and was not allowed to leave the airport premises. said the officer.
ADCP Srivastava told PTI that Robi came to India on September 18 after getting a visa for treatment at a hospital in Howrah on medical grounds, but instead visited Chennai to support the Bangladeshi team that completed his first test and later left for Kanpur.
Robi reached Green Park Stadium On Friday morning, he went to the C-Balcony enclosure and was seen waving flags during the game, which may have led to exhaustion and he became ill, police officials said.
“He gasped when he encountered a police officer. He fell unconscious before we could talk to him,” Harish Chander, deputy commissioner of police (law and order), told PTI.
He was rushed to Regency Hospital from where he was discharged late Friday evening, the ACP added.
Earlier, during a brief interaction with the media on Friday, Robi had hinted that he was hit in the abdomen during an argument. However, in a statement later made from his hospital bed, he said he was merely feeling unwell and had received the help he needed from local police.
“I fell ill and the police took me to hospital. “I feel much better now,” he explained in a short video clip.
According to the officials, Robi had reached Kanpur on Thursday evening and had to sleep on the road along with the workers.
He stayed at a hotel in Kanpur on Friday evening and was taken to Chakeri airport on Saturday morning, they said.
Abhishek Pandey, ACP (Kalyanpur), said Robi received immediate medical attention and insisted that he was not attacked as alleged in initial reports.
Sources said it was not clear how he traveled to the games despite being on a medical visa and was deported.