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Women Wrestler Case: Former WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh gets a setback from Delhi High Court

Women Wrestler Case: The controversial Former WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, is also accused in the case of sexual harassment of female wrestlers, has been reprimanded by the Delhi High Court today, However Brij Bhushan had filed a petition...
03:59 PM Aug 29, 2024 IST | Alka Singh

Women Wrestler Case: The controversial Former WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, is also accused in the case of sexual harassment of female wrestlers, has been reprimanded by the Delhi High Court today, However Brij Bhushan had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court demanding that the case of sexual harassment of wrestlers against him wiil dismissed. On this demand, Justice Nina Bansal has raised many questions on the petition challenging the order of framing of charges against Brij Bhushan Singh and the entire proceedings. The Justice said that if the charges have been framed, then everything cannot be dismissed on this basis.

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Bhushan lawyer said that he was framed

In the high court, while hearing the case, Judge Nina Bansal Krishna said that there cannot be an all-encompassing order on everything at all. If you wanted to dismiss the order on the charge, you could have come earlier. Once the trial has started, now this is an indirect method. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's lawyer argued that There was a hidden agenda behind filing the FIR. The lawyer claimed that the complainant wrestlers had a deliberate and punitive motive to remove him from his position as WFI President.

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The next hearing of this case is on September 26.

 In this case, the Delhi High Court has given two weeks to the lawyer of former BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to prepare a brief note with all the arguments to dismiss the sexual harassment case and the next hearing of this entire case will be on September 26. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has actually approached the Delhi High Court requesting to cancel the FIR and the chargesheet registered against him in the sexual harassment case by 6 female wrestlers. Brij Bhushan has argued that the investigation has been done in a biased manner because only the statements of the victims were considered in this case. His petition states that false allegations have been made against him and the lower courts did not consider his facts.

 

He has falsely implicated

Former BJP MP Brij Bhushan has also claimed that he has been falsely implicated, the prosecution has done a lot of work against him. All the allegations made are baseless. Let us tell you that on May 21, charges were framed against Brij Bhushan Singh in the sexual harassment case leveled by wrestlers. The court had also framed charges of criminal intimidation against co-accused and former WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar in this case. In the month of 2023, after the intervention of the Supreme Court, Delhi Police had registered a case against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for the first time. At present, it will be important to see what happens on the petition of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in the next hearing.

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