<p>“I have not been asked by my seniors to serve refreshments. We all are a family in the NIS,” Renu said on Saturday.<br /><br />A photograph published in a daily showed Renu purportedly serving tea to officials at the National Institute of Sports here. <br /><br />The paper quoted Renu as saying, “I have to follow orders, even if it means serving visitors. I don’t like it one bit but I cannot afford to disobey my seniors.”<br /><br />National coach GS Sandhu also sought to play safe and ruled out any such exploitation. <br /><br />“It is not that there is exploitation going on here. Nothing is forced,” he said.<br /><br />Renu, a bronze-medalist at the world boxing championship in 2006, was promised a job in the Railways.<br /><br />When the job did not materialise, she took up a one-year coaching course at the Patiala institute, only to be found doubling up as a waitress and a cleaning lady.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Rajesh Kailey, Incharge Academic Affairs said that he has nothing do with the incident as Renu was in national camp and Incharge VK Soni could brief about it.<br /><br />However, Soni did not take calls on his mobile phone despite repeated attempts to contact him.<br /><br />Executive Director L S Ranawat was on leave and will come next week while Rajesh Chabra, officiating executive director was not available for comments.</p>
<p>“I have not been asked by my seniors to serve refreshments. We all are a family in the NIS,” Renu said on Saturday.<br /><br />A photograph published in a daily showed Renu purportedly serving tea to officials at the National Institute of Sports here. <br /><br />The paper quoted Renu as saying, “I have to follow orders, even if it means serving visitors. I don’t like it one bit but I cannot afford to disobey my seniors.”<br /><br />National coach GS Sandhu also sought to play safe and ruled out any such exploitation. <br /><br />“It is not that there is exploitation going on here. Nothing is forced,” he said.<br /><br />Renu, a bronze-medalist at the world boxing championship in 2006, was promised a job in the Railways.<br /><br />When the job did not materialise, she took up a one-year coaching course at the Patiala institute, only to be found doubling up as a waitress and a cleaning lady.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Rajesh Kailey, Incharge Academic Affairs said that he has nothing do with the incident as Renu was in national camp and Incharge VK Soni could brief about it.<br /><br />However, Soni did not take calls on his mobile phone despite repeated attempts to contact him.<br /><br />Executive Director L S Ranawat was on leave and will come next week while Rajesh Chabra, officiating executive director was not available for comments.</p>