Delhi: The Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi will hear the case on the charge sheet filed in the Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh matter on Tuesday. Wrestling Federation of India president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has been accused of sexually harassing women athletes. The Delhi Police on June 15 had filed a 1,500-page charge sheet in the case after intervention by Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur. The hearing will be conducted at 2 pm on Tuesday by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Harjeet Singh Jaspal.
Earlier in the day, women wrestlers moved the court seeking a copy of the charge sheet filed against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The charge sheet has been filed under sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354A (sexual harassment), 354-D (stalking), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.
The charge sheet also named Vinod Tomar, the suspended assistant secretary of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), for offences under sections 109 (abetment of any offence, if the act abetted is committed in consequence, and where no express provision is made for its punishment), 354, 354-A and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.
Another FIR was also registered against Singh under the POCSO Act on the basis of allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by a minor wrestler. She was among the seven female grapplers who had accused Singh of sexual harassment.
Both the FIRs narrate several alleged instances of sexual harassment like inappropriate touching, groping, stalking and intimidation by Singh at different times and places over a decade.
