The court docket additionally granted bail to Vinod Tomar, the suspended assistant secretary of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), in the case.
A Delhi court docket on Tuesday granted two-day interim bail to outgoing WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in case of alleged sexual harassment of girls wrestlers. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Harjeet Singh granted aid to Singh on a private bond of Rs 25,000.
The court docket additionally granted bail to Vinod Tomar, the suspended assistant secretary of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), in the case. Singh and Tomar appeared earlier than the court docket in pursuance to summons issued to them and sought bail in the case.
The Delhi Police had filed a cost sheet in opposition to the six-time MP on June 15 underneath sections 354 (assault or felony drive to lady with intent to outrage her modesty), 354A (sexual harassment), 354D (stalking) and 506 (felony intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Tomar was charged with offences underneath IPC sections 109 (abetment of any offence, if the act abetted is dedicated in consequence, and the place no specific provision is made for its punishment), 354, 354A and 506 (felony intimidation).
Singh’s counsel alleged media trial, to which the decide stated he might transfer an utility earlier than the excessive court docket or trial court docket. The court docket will go an applicable order on the appliance, the decide stated. The counsel, nevertheless, didn’t transfer any utility in this regard.
Besides the current case, one other FIR was registered in opposition to Singh pursuant to allegations made by a minor wrestler which was registered underneath the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. She was among the many seven feminine grapplers who had accused Singh of sexual harassment. Both the FIRs talked about a number of alleged situations of sexual harassment like inappropriate touching, groping, stalking and intimidation by Singh at totally different occasions and locations over a decade.
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