Cricketer Shashank Singh, who is a player of IPL team Punjab Kings, on Sunday, July 12, opened up on the criticism and trolls targeting his family due to the controversy involving his family, alleging that a fake case was used to extort money, harm his reputation, and peace. In his long, brief note, he also emphasized how he was portrayed as a person who beats less privileged people overnight.
Opening on the allegations of assault put up by his family cook, Shashank said, “This incident changed me forever and taught me lessons I will carry for life. I am not writing this for sympathy. I am writing it because this was the first time my family and I experienced something like this, and I hope others learn from it. As an athlete, I have faced criticism, trolling, and abuse for years. I have learnt to live with it. But this was different. Overnight, I was portrayed as someone who had beaten up a person less privileged than I am. Thousands abused me without knowing the truth.”
He further shared the shocking points, “We were shocked when we later saw him in the video, because he had left our home completely fine. It took us time to process how someone could end up so badly beaten. He came to our home at his own insistence, but we sent him back on the third day after finding him wandering through the house, taking photos inside it, and forwarding them to his friends (or accomplices, now that I look back).”
Shashank opened up about his cook’s unknown details sharing the cases that has been registered against him, “Later, police records showed that he already had 9 FIRs registered against him and had been charge-sheeted in 8 cases for offences including attempt to murder, house theft (which we later discovered he had also committed at our home), assault, house-trespass, extortion by causing hurt, criminal intimidation, obscene acts, offences under SC/ST Act, and other crimes. He was using three different names to hide his identity.”
Shashank then revealed the hidden intentions of his cook, revealing, “As more facts came to light, I came to believe that he had never entered our home with honest intentions. I believe the plan was to create pressure on me by filing a false FIR, expecting that I would pay money to protect my reputation as a public figure. In my view, the FIR was used as a tool of extortion rather than a genuine complaint.
Learning that this was part of a plan to falsely blame us left us surprised.
What disturbed me even more was that, where genuine victims often struggle to get an FIR registered even for heinous crimes, one was registered against me and my family without hearing our side or questioning us.”
Later, the cricketer rejected the claims that he was involved in such activity in April 2026, but at that time, he was playing in the country’s biggest league. He said, “It speaks volumes about how cautious we all need to become. Reports were also circulating claiming that I was involved in a similar incident on 30 April 2026, when, in fact, I was playing in the country’s biggest league: “A simple fact-check would have exposed the falsehood. This reminded me how easily reputations can be damaged when rumours are treated as facts and verification is sacrificed for headlines. My father served the nation as an honest IPS officer for 39 years. His honesty earned him respect, but his straightforwardness also won him enemies.”
Expressing his fearful feelings, he said, “I thank God that I was home with my parents that day. I don’t want to imagine what could have happened otherwise. I believe my family escaped what could have been a much more serious situation. This experience taught me some hard lessons. Never let sympathy replace common sense. Always hire domestic help only through a registered agency after proper police verification. In today’s world, some people are willing to sell their honesty, integrity, and conscience for surprisingly little.”
Speaking up the truth, Shashank said it clearly that truth always prevails, “The thought that a known criminal, unknown to us then, came so close to the safe confines of our home still sends a chill down my spine. Just because someone appears to be helpless, is crying, or seeks sympathy does not mean they are telling the truth. Truth may take time, but it always prevails. Satyamev Jayate.”
