Rohtak, Dec. 2 -- Sports officials, including the under suspension Rohtak district sports officer Anoop Singh has written to the department to clarify that the two stadiums, where a 16-year-old junior national-level basketball player and another teenager, died in eerily similar accidents during practice in Haryana last week, were not under the control and management of the sports department.

Hardik Rathi, 16, who had participated in the national sub-junior basketball championship, died in Rohtak on November 25 after the basketball hoop's iron pole fell on him. Jhajjar's Aman, 15, lost his life in similar accident on November 24.

In a letter to Haryana director general sports, Jhajjar district sports officer Satender Kumar on November 26...