Wrestlers’ Protest: The police have tried to collect proof on their very own as nicely. (file)

New Delhi:

The Delhi Police has requested the ladies wrestlers who filed a sexual harassment case in opposition to Wrestling Federation of India chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to provide photos, movies, or WhatsApp chat messages to help their allegations, sources stated. The police have tried to collect proof on their very own as nicely.

The police served a CrPC 91 discover, which provides the investigating officer the facility to name for any doc that’s related to a case, on the complaints and requested them at hand over any proof they’ve relating to the case.

Elite grappler Bajrang Punia, a type of main the large protest demanding the quick arrest of the federation chief, yesterday in an exclusive interview with NDTV stated the protesters do not belief the police investigation. He stated there was an try and “shield” the BJP MP, and him being out of jail is hampering the investigation. 

“The police yesterday took a woman wrestler to the Wrestling Federation of India office despite Brij Bhushan Singh being present there. The woman asked if Mr Singh was at the office, the police lied and said he wasn’t. She got scared when she got to know he was there,” Mr Punia stated.

Olympian Sakshee Malikkh within the sdame interview stated that the “minor” who was among the seven women wrestlers accusing Mr Singh of sexual harassment, modified her assertion underneath stress. “There’s huge pressure on us to compromise,” she stated, accusing Mr Singh of getting his males to name and threaten the complainants.

The “minor” wrestler was not underage at the time of the event and has recorded a fresh statement in court. Her father stated she had modified the age-related bit in her assertion, however her grievance of sexual harassment stays because it was.

Ms Malikkh additionally stated they’ve been demanding the arrest and custodial interrogation of the accused since day one as he has sufficient energy and affect to derail the investigation and intimidate the complainants and witnesses.

“An impartial probe can’t be conducted without Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s arrest,” she stated.

Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has earlier denied all allegations of sexual misconduct, and even issued a defiant assertion refuting all prices.

“If a single allegation against me is proven, I will hang myself. If you (wrestlers) have any evidence, present it to the Court, and I am ready to accept any punishment,” he stated.

In one other interview to NDTV yesterday, Jagbir Singh, a global wrestling referee who was current at a wrestling occasion in Lucknow the place a lady wrestler alleged harassment by Brij Bhushan Singh, claimed that the accused in March last year grabbed a woman wrestler “in a place one shouldn’t touch a woman”.

He additionally made critical allegations in opposition to Brij Bhushan Singh relating to one other alleged incident of 2013 when he stated the federation chief’s “horrifying side” was revealed.