Sexual harassment allegations false and motivated, Brij Bhushan tells court
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Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh refutes sexual harassment allegations by 6 women wrestlers, calling them false & motivated. Defence counsel argued one complainant didn't disclose incident till April 2023 & another's alleged incident took place outside Delhi jurisdiction.
BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh and former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Saturday refuted allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by six women wrestlers and termed the accusations “false and motivated”.
Advocate Rajiv Mohan, who appeared for Mr. Singh in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Harjeet Singh Jaspal, made these submissions during the hearing on framing of charges in the case.
Mr. Mohan told the court that one of the complainants, who had alleged that she was groped by Mr. Singh during her tour to Kazakhstan in 2012, was a member of the sexual harassment committee at the WFI and had never disclosed the alleged incident till April 2023.
On the complaint by another wrestler that Mr. Singh, on the pretext of taking a photo with her, had pulled her towards him, the counsel submitted that the incident happened in Ballari, Karnataka, in 2021. The alleged incident was outside the jurisdiction of Delhi, and in the light of Section 178 of the Cr.PC, no trial can take place of any such offence in Delhi.
“Her coach Bhupinder has categorically stated that he had not observed any sexual harassment or any ill-treatment by the accused nor she had informed anything about such incident to her coach,” advocate Mohan submitted.
In another complaint, one of the wrestlers had said that during the Asian championship trials held in Lucknow in March 2022, the accused had placed his hand on her buttock during the group photoshoot.
“The allegation is not made out in the light of the statement given by witness Jagbir, a referee in the said trials, that he had not witnessed the accused touching the complainant inappropriately,” the advocate submitted.
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