SONIPAT, India — An Olympic wrestler on Saturday (June 10) criticised the pace of a police enquiry into sexual harassment accusations against the chief of India's national wrestling body. Vinesh Phogat, a two-time Olympian who has accused Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexually abusing her, said she has also been hurt by Prime Minister...
SONIPAT, India — An Olympic wrestler on Saturday criticised the pace of a police enquiry into sexual harassment accusations against the chief of India's national wrestling body.
Singh, who is also a federal lawmaker from Modi's ruling party, has denied allegations of making sexual advances, groping and threatening female athletes if they refused to meet him alone. Phogat, 28, who is the first Indian female wrestler to win both the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games gold, claims that during training camps and tournaments Singh would use "every possible way to single out young athletes and grope them repeatedly".
"But he was not just interested in listening to my concerns...he was busy on his phone when I was talking to him," said Phogat.A lawyer and close aide to Singh said all the allegations were fake and fabricated by women to tarnish the chief's career. They resumed their protest on April 23, but several of them were briefly detained and the protest site was forcibly cleared on May 28.
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