Singh’s counsel Rajiv Mohan, in the course of the listening to, alleged media path, to which the decide stated he could transfer an utility earlier than the excessive courtroom or trial courtroom.

Singh was summoned by a Delhi court after taking cognizance of a 1500-page chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police in opposition to him for alleged sexual harassment, assault and stalking of six ladies wrestlers. The chargesheet was a compilation of testimonies of the six wrestlers, statements of witnesses and technical proof corresponding to pictures, movies and name element information. Police cited photograph and video proof to corroborate the complaints.

The chargesheet in opposition to Singh was filed below sections 354 (assault or legal pressure to girl with intent to outrage her modesty), 354A (sexual harassment), 354D (stalking) and 506 (legal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), whereas, Tomar was charged with offences below sections 109 (abetment of any offence, if the act abetted is dedicated in consequence, and the place no categorical provision is made for its punishment), 354, 354A and 506 (legal intimidation) of the IPC.

In the month of April, seven feminine wrestlers together with a minor, had filed separate complaints of sexual harassment and criminal intimidation in opposition to Singh. In their complaints, they alleged 15 incidents of sexual harassment that embrace 10 episodes of inappropriate touching; a number of situations of intimidation, together with stalking.

The minor and her father, who was the complainant, had later withdrawn their allegations in opposition to Singh in a contemporary assertion earlier than a Justice of the Peace, following which the Delhi Police additionally filed a cancellation report below the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.