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A team of Delhi Police has visited the residence of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singhs residence in Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh to investigate the sexual harassment charges against him, officers said on June 6...
Officers said the investigating police team questioned roughly a dozen employees and associates of Mr. Singh and recorded their statements..
A special investigation team (SIT) is probing the two cases lodged against Mr. Singh, a six-term parliamentarian one based on the complaint lodged by six wrestlers and another one on the complaint of a minor wrestler under the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act...
He met Viresh Shandilya, national president of Ambala-based Brahmin Mahapanchayat; Bhavani Dada Kalvi, son of late Lokendra Singh Kalvi, the founder of Rajasthan Shri Rajput Karni Sena; Akhand Hindu Rashtra Sangathan president Anil Modi, and various others on Monday.. The Kaiserganj MP is scheduled to address a BJP rally in Katra Bazar area of his parliamentary constituency, on June 11, under the partys Mahasampark Abhiyan on completion of nine years of the Narendra Modi government, after postponing his own proposed Jan Chetna Maharally in Ayodhya on June 5 citing directions from the Supreme Court and the ongoing investigation...
A collective statement was issued by women and human rights organisations condemning the state repression and police atrocities on the wrestlers in their struggle for justice against sexual harassment...
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