NEW DELHI: A lady wrestler, among the many six complainants who’ve filed separate FIRs towards former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, has testified that Singh sought sexual favours in lieu of bearing her medical bills for the remedy of her damage.
This testimony by the complainant underneath part 164 of CrPC types a part of the Delhi police chargesheet, which runs into 1600 pages and has been positioned earlier than the Rouse Avenue District Court docket listening to the case, TOI has reliably learnt.
“On 19.09.2022, I performed within the closing of the (weight class withheld) towards (title of the opponent and her nation of origin withheld). I had suffered an damage which required correct remedy which might allow me to proceed my future in wrestling. Upon my arrival in India, I used to be referred to as to the workplace of the WFI at 21 Ashoka Street the place I met the accused (learn Singh) who instructed me that the federation is prepared to bear the bills for my remedy supplied I gave in to his sexual advances. I fully refused,” the complainant, who’s listed as Wrestler No. 2 within the chargesheet, alleged.
One other complainant, listed as Wrestler No. 6 within the chargesheet, accused Singh of providing to purchase her protein dietary supplements in change of sexual favours. “He used to ask me “mein kaisa lag raha tha aaj?”, “observe kaisi chal rahi hai”, “mereko bata dio agar kuch chahiye ho toh”, “tu mujhe apna hello samajh”. In November 2012, to additional fulfill his sexual intentions, he tried to bribe me by providing to purchase me dietary supplements which I’d require in change for sexual favours. “
Whereas all of the complainants reported alleged acts of sexual abuse on totally different events by Singh and his shut aides, each domestically and on worldwide excursions, the wrestlers additionally accused the previous WFI chief of threatening them by issuing present trigger notices at his whim.
“His aides would name up wrestlers to fulfill him personally on the federation workplace alone, apologise (to Singh) or face critical penalties,” the complainants alleged.
Singh, on his half, instructed his investigators on Might 6, 2023 at NPL Kingsway Camp right here that he neither met feminine wrestlers alone at his official bungalow, which housed the WFI workplace, nor touched them inappropriately throughout nationwide camps for the reason that whole space was coated underneath CCTV.
The complainants, of their testimonies, additionally forged critical aspersions on the equity of the probe performed by the government-appointed six-member oversight committee, headed by MC Mary Kom.
“Through the oversight committee hearings, the members mentioned the alleged acts of the accused No. 1 (learn Singh) have been nothing however harmless acts completed in good religion and that we have been deciphering the identical in a wrongful method.”
This testimony by the complainant underneath part 164 of CrPC types a part of the Delhi police chargesheet, which runs into 1600 pages and has been positioned earlier than the Rouse Avenue District Court docket listening to the case, TOI has reliably learnt.
“On 19.09.2022, I performed within the closing of the (weight class withheld) towards (title of the opponent and her nation of origin withheld). I had suffered an damage which required correct remedy which might allow me to proceed my future in wrestling. Upon my arrival in India, I used to be referred to as to the workplace of the WFI at 21 Ashoka Street the place I met the accused (learn Singh) who instructed me that the federation is prepared to bear the bills for my remedy supplied I gave in to his sexual advances. I fully refused,” the complainant, who’s listed as Wrestler No. 2 within the chargesheet, alleged.
One other complainant, listed as Wrestler No. 6 within the chargesheet, accused Singh of providing to purchase her protein dietary supplements in change of sexual favours. “He used to ask me “mein kaisa lag raha tha aaj?”, “observe kaisi chal rahi hai”, “mereko bata dio agar kuch chahiye ho toh”, “tu mujhe apna hello samajh”. In November 2012, to additional fulfill his sexual intentions, he tried to bribe me by providing to purchase me dietary supplements which I’d require in change for sexual favours. “
Whereas all of the complainants reported alleged acts of sexual abuse on totally different events by Singh and his shut aides, each domestically and on worldwide excursions, the wrestlers additionally accused the previous WFI chief of threatening them by issuing present trigger notices at his whim.
“His aides would name up wrestlers to fulfill him personally on the federation workplace alone, apologise (to Singh) or face critical penalties,” the complainants alleged.
Singh, on his half, instructed his investigators on Might 6, 2023 at NPL Kingsway Camp right here that he neither met feminine wrestlers alone at his official bungalow, which housed the WFI workplace, nor touched them inappropriately throughout nationwide camps for the reason that whole space was coated underneath CCTV.
The complainants, of their testimonies, additionally forged critical aspersions on the equity of the probe performed by the government-appointed six-member oversight committee, headed by MC Mary Kom.
“Through the oversight committee hearings, the members mentioned the alleged acts of the accused No. 1 (learn Singh) have been nothing however harmless acts completed in good religion and that we have been deciphering the identical in a wrongful method.”