Cops to Court: Brij Bhushan Harassed Wrestlers “At Every Opportunity,” with Enough Evidence to Support Charges

Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the former president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), harassed female wrestlers whenever he had the chance, the Delhi Police said before the Rouse Avenue Court on Saturday.

There is enough evidence against Bhushan, according to Delhi Police, who was represented by a second public prosecutor, Atul Srivastava, in the sexual harassment case.

Six female wrestlers accused BJP MLA Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment, and the case was being heard in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court.

According to Srivastava, there was an intention on the side of the accused, and the instances are related, according to news agency ANI.

The extra public prosecutor said that Bhushan was aware of his actions in Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Bellary, and New Delhi in order to support the occurrences. According to Srivastava, Singh embraced a female wrestler without her will in Tajikistan, and when the complainant objected, Singh described the act as “father-like.”

However, attorney Rajiv Mohan previously argued on behalf of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh that the Court lacks jurisdiction to hear cases involving offenses that occurred outside of India.

He went on to say that they had three different forms of evidence against Singh: one written document and two audio recordings. The additional prosecutor to the court was told that these statements were recorded in accordance with Sections 161 (examination of witnesses by the police) and 164 (statements recorded by a Magistrate) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).

Vinod Tomar was named as a co-accused by Delhi Police in its inquiry as the person who enabled the operations. Before the suspension, Vinod Tomar was a second WFI secretary and collaborated closely with Singh in addition to managing the Federation’s day-to-day operations. Additionally, the Delhi Police said that Tomar has been charged with supporting Brij Bhushan’s actions by every single eyewitness in the case.

On October 7, the court will resume hearing the case.

BRIJ BHUSHAN SHARAN SINGH, WHO IS HE?

The Wrestling Federation of India’s president for the previous 12 years, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, was elected to a third term in 2019. In Uttar Pradesh, he owns and oversees more than 50 educational institutes.Singh has extensive political influence due to his three decades as an MP for Uttar Pradesh.

In fact, he briefly tried his luck with the Samajwadi Party before joining the BJP again just before the 2014 elections. He again won in 2019 by a wide margin. Singh is the descendant of the late independence fighter and MLA Chandrabhan Sharan Singh.

He went on to win his first election in 1991. He was arrested shortly after under TADA, but the BJP awarded his wife a ticket, and she went on to win the election. He received the BJP nomination in 1999 from Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s hometown of Balrampur.

Gonda was renamed “Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan Nagar” after he took on Mayawati while she was the chief minister, forcing her to make the choice. However, he split with the BJP in 2009 and joined the Samajwadi Party, which helped him retake the Kaiserganj seat.