The ongoing protest by wrestlers at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar is displaying no indicators of dying down amid numerous allegations levelled in opposition to WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The wrestlers, who’ve been on the protest web site since April 23, have accused Brij Bhushan of a number of incidents of sexual harassment and inappropriate touching and bodily contact.

The accusations mentioned Brij Bhushan dedicated the identical throughout tournaments, warm-up occasions of wrestlers and even on the Wrestling Federation of India workplace in New Delhi, a report in The Indian Express mentioned.

The report additional mentioned that two out of seven grownup feminine wrestlers lodged a criticism in opposition to the WFI chief with Delhi’s Connaught Place police station.

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The complaints, which have been filed on April 21 listed out as many as 8 incidents in opposition to Singh, on report, say how the latter, below the pretext of checking their respiratory sample, touched them in an inappropriate and sexual method.

Singh has persistently denied the allegations in opposition to him, calling them part of political conspiracy to badmouth him and take away him from his place.

Opposition leaders from Congress together with Priyanka Gandhi, AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal amongst others have visited Jantar Mantar to supply help to the agitating wrestlers.

In the primary wrestler’s criticism, the IE report mentioned, the lady has accused Singh of touching her breasts and abdomen at a restaurant throughout a match in 2019 after she was requested by him to affix him at his desk. The complainant additionally named one more incident the place Singh did the identical to her, this time on the WFI workplace inside his MP bungalow in Delhi, IE mentioned within the report.

The second wrestler’s criticism additionally listed comparable incidents in opposition to Singh, one on the WFI workplace and the second throughout a match the place she alleged that Singh lifted her coaching jersey with out her consent saying he needed to verify her respiratory sample.

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The wrestlers have been on the protesting web site since April 23.

The wrestlers have alleged that the Delhi Police didn’t file FIRs initially in opposition to Singh, following which they approached the Supreme Court which is when two FIRs have been filed in opposition to the WFI chief, one POCSO criticism and one on the fees levelled by the grownup wrestlers.

In current developments, the Supreme Court on Thursday didn’t entertain a plea by the wrestlers who had needed the instances being probed by the Delhi Police be monitored b a retired SC or High Court decide. “Having due regard to the ambit of the petition and registration of FIRs, we close the proceedings at this stage. The petitioner can move the jurisdictional magistrate or the high court concerned for suitable reliefs,” the bench mentioned.

The courtroom famous that the aim of the petition earlier than it was registration of the FIR. Two FIRs have been lodged in opposition to Singh by the Delhi police on April 28.

It additionally took into report that correct safety has been offered to the complainants.

Olympian wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat and different grapplers, most of whom haili from Haryana, resumed their protest in opposition to the WFI chief in Jantar Mantar in Delhi final month following the setting-up of a committee headed by boxing legend M C Mary Kom to probe allegations in opposition to Singh.

The wrestlers complained that no motion had been taken on their complaints in opposition to the WFI chief for sexual harassment and felony intimidation. The committee’s report is but to be made public.