Wrestling Federation of India chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh addresses a public assembly in Barabanki on May 31, 2023.
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With the wrestlers having put their agitation on maintain, the minor wrestler’s father who filed a police complaint against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, stated he intentionally filed “a false case against him due to anger”.
However, he additionally advised The Hindu on Thursday that he was threatened by folks whose names he couldn’t reveal and “his family is living in intense fear”.
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Based on the complaint, an FIR was filed against Mr. Singh on April 28 at Connaught Place police station underneath IPC sections 354, 354(A), 354(D), 34 and part 10 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The minor’s father, additionally the complainant, within the FIR had narrated intimately a number of situations when his daughter was allegedly sexually harassed by the WFI chief. He had claimed that Mr. Singh had “touched her inappropriately” and requested her to “support him, if she needed his support”.
He additionally alleged that Mr. Singh had discriminated against his daughter. “To my utter shock, my daughter was hugely discriminated against,” he had stated within the FIR.
However, after a number of studies claimed that the woman had withdrawn the complaint, her father advised The Hindu that they recorded a recent assertion denying any incident of sexual harassment. However, he stated they haven’t withdrawn the complaint the place they’ve claimed that Mr. Singh discriminated against his daughter.
He stated, “We have not taken back any complaint, we have just recorded another statement before the magistrate on June 5, where we have alleged that he discriminated against her when it came to wrestling, and he did not sexually harass her.”
On being requested why he filed the false case, the woman’s father stated “he was fuelled by anger against him because his daughter lost in last year’s trial match”. “We are telling the truth so that it comes out while investigation is under way,” he added.
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Elaborating, he stated, “My daughter was deliberately made to lose because of the staff that was on duty and the opponent, and everybody hailed from Delhi, which isn’t right according to the rules. I did complain regarding the discrimination to the Federation, but nobody heard me.”
He stated he was indignant. “I felt disheartened and I was angry and why shouldn’t I be? Mr. Singh was biased against her, I had to sell my house to train my daughter. We only had three options: to get her married, educated or get her into sports. Now, we don’t know what her future will be.”
“I understand that we made a mistake and we would like to rectify it,” he stated, including that the referee’s choice, within the trial match, was influenced by Mr. Singh.
‘Changed my statement because I was scared’
However, he additionally revealed he was dwelling in concern and was threatened. “I changed my statement in court not because of greed but because I was scared… scared for my family, daughter and myself. Many lives have changed since we raised the allegations. I have to face the society and the people, I was threatened by people, whose names I can’t reveal, my family is living in intense fear. If anything happens to me or my daughter, how will we live?” he advised The Hindu.
On Mr. Singh, the minor’s father stated that he has “nothing against him, apart from the anger over how his daughter was treated”.
“I will continue to stand with the wrestlers, who have always supported us since day one. What happened to the women is wrong,” he stated.
“The police complaint that we have given, is somewhat true and partly false and we’ve cleared everything that is right and wrong,” he stated.
Asked about allegations that his daughter isn’t a minor, he asserted that she is a minor and that they’ve offered the investigators with “legal documents pertaining to her identity”.
