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Delhi Police takes woman wrestler to Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's official residence for probe

| @indiablooms | Jun 10, 2023, at 05:13 am

New Delhi/IBNS: Stepping up its investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the Delhi Police Friday took a woman wrestler to his office here to recreate the sequence of events that led to the alleged crime.

Singh's office is housed in his official residence.

Sports Minister Anurag Thakur had assured the protesting wrestlers that a chargesheet would be filed in the case by June 15, after which they suspended their protest.

A Delhi Police official said the wrestler, accompanied by women police personnel, was taken to the WFI office at 1.30 pm.

Hours after the police left the place, wrestler Vinesh Phogat, who was among those leading the protest, took to Twitter to express her disappointment at media reports that claimed that the wrestlers had reached the WFI office for a compromise.

"This is the power of Brij Bhushan. He is harassing women wrestlers by using his muscle power, political power and running false narratives, and his arrest is necessary. If the police arrest him instead of breaking us, there is hope for justice, otherwise not. Women wrestlers had gone to the crime scene for police investigation, but it was flashed in the media that they had gone for a compromise," she tweeted in Hindi.

Bajrang Punia also posted similar tweets.

The Delhi Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) is investigating the sexual harassment allegations against the outgoing WFI president and BJP MP Singh and is likely to submit in the court its investigation report in the two cases registered against him by next week, reports said on Wednesday.

As part of its investigation, the SIT has questioned more than 180 people, the Delhi Police officials said.

Top wrestlers of the country, including Asian Games gold medallist Vinesh Phogat and Olympic medallists Sakshee Malikkh and Bajrang Punia, have been protesting against Singh and demanding his arrest for allegedly sexually harassing female grapplers.

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