NEW DELHI: In response to allegations of sexual harassment involving ladies wrestlers, a Delhi court docket on Friday issued summons for BJP MP and former WFI chief, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
The court docket has decided that there’s substantial proof to proceed with the case. Further Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Harjeet Singh Jaspal, having acknowledged the chargesheet, has ordered Brij Bhushan to look earlier than the court docket on July 18.Moreover, Vinod Tomar, the suspended assistant secretary of the Wrestling Federation of India, has additionally been summoned by the court docket.
The town police had filed a chargesheet in opposition to Brij Bhushan, a six-time MP, on June 15 underneath Sections 354 (assault or prison pressure to lady with intent to outrage her modesty), 354A (sexual harassment), 354D (stalking) and 506 (prison intimidation) of the IPC.
Tomar was charged with offences underneath 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 (prison intimidation) of the IPC.
(With PTI inputs)
The court docket has decided that there’s substantial proof to proceed with the case. Further Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Harjeet Singh Jaspal, having acknowledged the chargesheet, has ordered Brij Bhushan to look earlier than the court docket on July 18.Moreover, Vinod Tomar, the suspended assistant secretary of the Wrestling Federation of India, has additionally been summoned by the court docket.
The town police had filed a chargesheet in opposition to Brij Bhushan, a six-time MP, on June 15 underneath Sections 354 (assault or prison pressure to lady with intent to outrage her modesty), 354A (sexual harassment), 354D (stalking) and 506 (prison intimidation) of the IPC.
Tomar was charged with offences underneath 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 (prison intimidation) of the IPC.
(With PTI inputs)
