Meena Kumari (born 15 August 1994) is an Indian weightlifter and appointed to the post of Inspector in Punjabi Police, who placed fifth in the women's 58 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
[1][2][3] Kumari joined the Punjab police as a constable after attending college.
[7] In May 2016 at the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Kumari successfully appealed a three-year ban imposed by the Indian Weightlifting Federation in November 2014 for unspecified alleged behaviour in training and at the Commonwealth Games but was later proved non guilty and ban was lifted.
[5] In 2017, Kumari took part in the Senior National Powerlifting Championship in Kerala and won a silver medal in the deadlift and bronze in the squat, and came third in the 63 kg category.
[8] Kumari is from Jattewali village in Adampur, Punjab, where her father is a tailor.