Dingko leads Services charge

Asian Games batamweight gold medallist, NG Dingko Singh, led the list of top winners by sailing towards an expected title victory alongwith fellow Services star Ramanand in the featherweight category.

N Rana, SC Punera, ME Narayana, G Singh and N Navalan of Services and Railways’ Bhushan Saini, AS Rao, V Bhaskaran, D Gill, Mohd Ali Qamar, J Kumar and L Prasad entered the semi-finals in their respective weights while R Prajuli and J Fernandes of SSCB and H Singh of RSPB were ousted in the quarter-finals

S Singh, Durjai Shastri, B Singh and R Kumar from Haryana, Bhim Singh, G Singh and H Singh from AIP, R Singh, B Singh and K Kumar from Punjab, a Sharma and H Singh from Chandigarh and Shiv Chowdhary from Himachal Pradesh also earned semi-final berths.

Md Ali Qamar (RSPB) and S Suresh Singh (CISF) made it to the semis defeating Md Safdar Khan (Bengal), lt weight and Sandeep Kumar (AP) in lt fly respectively on points while Bhim Singh (AIP) and Girish Pawar (Mah) scored facile wins against Deepak Rana (Guj) and Raj Bahadur (UP) respectively in the same category (both RSC).

AS Rao (RSPB) beat Jai Prakash (Haryana) and A Danewala (Maharashtra) beat Roshangulra (Mizoram) on points in fly weight.

In bantam, R Singh (Punjab) outboxed Ramarao (AP) and L Kharpran (Meghalaya) beat M Tomba (Manipur) on points. V Bhaskar (RSPB), P Sreenath (AP) and Md Tarque (Bengal) also moved into semi-finals in feather category defeating A Shandil (SPSB), Naresh Dalal (AIP) and DS Bisht (Delhi) respectively on points.

G Singh (AIP), SD Singh (Manipur) and MS Singh (AR) entered lt wt semi-finals defeating SK Alam (Bengal), K Vir (AIEB) and S Mishra (UP) respectively.

H Singh (Chg) beat SK Hela (Bengal) retd and T Nunga (Mizoram) knocked out TD Meeithi (Manipur) while A Kumar (CISF) outpointed P Kumar (AIP) to enter the welter weight semi-finals.