The NHRC issued a notice to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on Thursday over stories that the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and 4 different our bodies do not need an inner complaints committee to address sexual harassment charges, a senior official stated.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has additionally despatched notices to the Sports Authority of India (SAI), the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the WFI and a number of other different nationwide sports federations over stories that they both don’t even have an ICC or a correctly purposeful ICC as required by legislation, in accordance to an announcement issued by the rights panel.
The notices come at a time when a number of wrestlers are protesting at Jantar Mantar right here demanding the sacking and arrest of WFI president and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over charges of sexual harassment of girls grapplers.
The NHRC has taken “suo motu cognisance of a media report that there is no Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) in the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) as mandated by the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (PoSH) Act, 2013”.
“Reportedly, the wrestling body is not the only one not having a duly constituted ICC. In addition to it, there are as many as 15 of the 30 national sports federations who do not meet this mandatory requirement,” it stated.
