The outgoing chief of India’s wrestling federation persistently “outraged the modesty” of ladies wrestlers, who had accused him of harassment, at each alternative he obtained, police officers have informed a courtroom.
The feedback have been made by a lawyer representing Delhi’s police on 23 September towards Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who can be an influential member of parliament from prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP.
Mr Singh has been on the centre of sexual harassment allegations by half a dozen girls wrestlers who staged a sit-in protest for months. The wrestlers, that rely Olympic and Asian recreation medallists amongst them, had accused him of sexual harassment.
The courtroom was within the means of contemplating arguments for formally framing prices towards Mr Singh after a chargesheet had been filed in a sexual harassment case introduced forth by six girls wrestlers.
Advocate Atul Srivastava, representing the Delhi police, informed the courtroom that Mr Singh “knew what he was doing” and his intention was to outrage the modesty of the wrestlers, the native media reported. Mr Singh has persistently denied the accusations made towards him.
The Delhi police additionally emphasised that there exist three compelling items of proof towards him, which offer enough grounds to provoke prices.
These embody a written criticism together with two recorded statements beneath sections of India’s felony code.
The wrestlers had began protests in January by tenting within the streets of nationwide capital Delhi. That they had later known as off the protests after talks with the federal sports activities minister on the promise of motion towards Mr Singh.
However the protests resumed once more in April as a result of authorities inaction alleged by the wrestlers, resulting in dramatic scenes of them being briefly detained by Delhi’s police as they tried to march to the brand new parliament constructing.
It was solely after the Supreme Court docket had intervened within the matter in April that the Delhi police registered the primary data stories towards Mr Singh.
In the meantime, in a viral video shared on Monday, Mr Singh will be heard saying “who’s going to cancel my ticket?” when he was requested by reporters if he can be given one to contest nationwide elections subsequent yr.
Swati Maliwal, the top of the Delhi Girls’s Fee, shared the video and asserted that there appeared to be vital backing for Mr Singh that enabled him to show a excessive diploma of energy and vanity.
“Brij Bhushan… is overtly difficult who has the braveness to cancel his ticket? Solely an enormous man should be in control of this, that’s the reason there’s a lot vanity of energy,” she wrote on X/Twitter.
The courtroom will subsequent hear the case on 7 October.