Wrestlers Protest / Hugged-put hand on navel, touched wrongly; Learn how Brijbhushan Singh is accused in the FIR

Zoom News : Jun 02, 2023, 01:38 PM
Wrestlers Protest: On the complaint of wrestlers, an FIR has been registered against Brijbhushan Sharan Singh, former president of the Wrestling Federation, at the Connaught Place police station in Delhi. Now the information about the registered FIR has come to the fore. According to the registered FIR, there are complaints of demand for sexual exploitation and at least 10 cases of molestation against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in 2 FIRs. There is mention of 10 such cases in the FIR, in which complaints of molestation have been made. According to the FIR, these include inappropriate touching, placing or attempting to place a hand on the chest on any pretext, carrying the hand from the chest to the back and stalking.

FIR registered under these sections

This complaint was given at Connaught Place police station on 21 April and Delhi Police registered two FIRs on 28 April. Both these FIRs have been registered under IPC sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354A (sexual harassment), 354D (stalking) and 34. It carries a jail term of one to three years. The first FIR includes allegations against six adult wrestlers and also names WFI secretary Vinod Tomar.

Minor's father also complained

The second FIR is based on a complaint by a minor's father and also invokes Section 10 of the POCSO Act, which carries imprisonment of five to seven years. The incidents mentioned allegedly happened from 2012 to 2022 in India and abroad.

Based on the complaint lodged by the minor, the accused held her tightly, pretended to pose for photographs, pulled her towards him, pressed her shoulder forcefully and then intentionally touched her body in an inappropriate manner while the victim refrained from following him. was flatly refused.

6 adult female wrestler's complaint

According to the complaint of the first wrestler out of 6 adult female wrestlers, the accused called me to his table during dinner at the hotel restaurant and touched me. Touched from chest to stomach. In the office of Wrestling Federation, my knuckles, my shoulders and palm were touched without my permission. My feet were also touched with your feet. Touched from chest to stomach on the pretext of understanding my breathing pattern.

According to the complaint of another wrestler, when I was lying on the mat, the accused (Singh) came to me, my coach was not there, pulled my T-shirt without my permission, put his hand on my chest and started breathing. Under the pretext of investigation, it was slipped under my stomach. Apart from this, I was with my brother in the Federation office. I was called and my brother was asked to stay. Then forcefully pulled towards the room.

According to the complaint of the third wrestler, the accused asked the wrestler to talk to his parents, hugged him and told him to pay bribe. According to the complaint of the fourth wrestler, the accused put his hand on the navel on the pretext of breath test.

According to the complaint of the fifth wrestler, I was at the back of the line, when I touched it wrongly, when I tried to move away, I grabbed my shoulder. According to the complaint of the sixth wrestler, he put his hand on the shoulder on the pretext of the picture, while the wrestler protested.

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