Neha Chauhan, the inspector from Haryana police who was killed in a road accident on Samruddhi Mahamarg on Saturday morning, was an acclaimed international hockey player who bagged the gold medal for India Under-18 in 2001 in Hong Kong. A series of other achievements in sports paved her way to get a sub-inspector job in the police force in 2008, said a colleague requesting anonymity.

Chauhan was the frontrunner in the Haryana Police to arrest Priyanka Taneja alias Honey Preet Kaur, a close confidante and alleged adopted daughter of controversial religious guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim in 2017, according to her colleagues and relatives.