Wrestlers’ sexual harassment case: Court to hear argument on charges from Aug 9 to 11

On Thursday, a Delhi court set the dates of August 9 and August 11 for the charges in the sexual harassment case that several wrestlers had filed. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the outgoing president of the Wrestler Federation of India (WFI), and Vinod Tomar Singh, the WFI assistant secretary, are both charged in the case.

Recently, the Court granted regular bail to outgoing Wrestling Federation of India President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and the Federation’s assistant secretary Vinod Tomar Singh in the sexual harassment case registered by several wrestlers.
On Thursday,  Advocate Rajeev Mohan, a lawyer for Brij Bhushan Sharan, submitted that the documents supplied are complete however there are certain documents for which he seeks a better picture/better copy as per his submission, he can take the soft copy from the Investigation officer.
After taking note of this, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Harjeet Singh Jaspal decided to keep the matter for arguments on charge for 9, 10 and 11 August, 2023.

The court previously placed several restrictions on the accused when it granted both of them regular bail, including that they not directly or indirectly coerce the complainants or witnesses and that they not leave the country without the court’s permission. Atul Srivastava, a Special Public Prosecutor for the Delhi Police, had earlier asserted that, “We have not arrested the accused; we leave it to the court to determine whether to grant him bail; however, we are opposing bail; some conditions can be imposed on him that he does not influence the witnesses.”