New Delhi: Delhi High Court slammed former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President Brij Bhushan Singh, who is a BJP leader too, on Thursday for trying to stop the trial court proceedings in a sexual harassment case. He had earlier moved a petition seeking quashing of entire proceedings, including the charges framed against him and the FIR lodged by six women wrestlers.
Justice Neena Bansal, who led the Delhi High Court, was not convinced with the approach adopted by Singh and said that all such objections should have been raised earlier and not during the full trial. Justice Bansal said that Singh’s plea was ‘peripheral’ and it was another twist to delay or even sabotage the process. She told the court and Singh that if he wanted to challenge the charges or the procedure, he should have done so before the trial began.
Justice Bansal cuts in, “There can’t be an omnibus order on everything,” “If you wanted to challenge everything, it should have been done when the trial had not started and the charges not framed, this is just a way of fleeing from the charges. ”
In this regard, the matter is slated for the next hearing on the 26th of September. His honour has told Singh’s advocate to write a note as to all submissions arising in the case.
Another argument of Singh’s plea is the qualitative aspects of the investigation, which state that only the victim’s stories were considered and Singh himself is innocent of the charges. He claims that all the charges levelled against him result from bitterness and not of any truth found in him.
Though Brijbhushan Singh has been ousted from the post of the president of WFI following a protest from top wrestlers who accused him of sexual harassment, he has been heavily criticised. The alleged offences involve sexual harassment, intimidation, obscene gestures, and outraging the modesty of women, which the trial court framed on the 21st Of May.
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