Speaking to The Indian Express, Anita, 38, said that the complainant had known as her from a occasion abroad to “share” the incident the place Singh had allegedly known as her to his room and “forcibly” hugged her.
Anita is among the many many over 125 potential witnesses, all through 4 states, who’re part of the police probe.
Anita, who has been a room-mate of the complainant at national-level camps, knowledgeable The Indian Express: “After the championship by which she (wrestler) gained gold, she didn’t go dwelling nonetheless obtained right here straight to the camp in Patiala. She had known as me from the city (overseas) the place the rivals was held and had knowledgeable me over the phone ‘Didi bahut aisi baat ho gayi, mein aake bataungi apko kuchh. Bahut bura kaam hai yahaan to’ (Sister, an incident has occurred and I’ll let you understand as quickly as I return. Something very mistaken is going on proper right here).
On reaching Patiala, the wrestler narrated her ordeal to Anita. “She told me that after her competition she had gone to her room. Then the physio’s call came saying the President Saheb wants to meet you. She was scared because earlier, too, he used to trouble her over the phone…saying I will give you protein (supplements) and what not. She was uncomfortable already. What she told me was that when she reached (the room), she sat at a distance. But he said ‘arre arre, aisa kyu kar rahi ho, tum hamari bitiya ho, hamare paas aao’. (You are like my daughter, come closer). She went and sat next to him and suddenly he hugged her tightly. She was so scared after that incident. When she returned from there, she narrated what had happened and she cried,” Anita said.
BJP MP Singh continued with “continuous acts of sexual harassment and “repeated indecent advances,” in response to the FIR.
“Even earlier, before the championship where she won gold, he (Singh) had started contacting her over the phone saying ‘hum tumhare yeh madad karenge, hum se baat karo (I will help you, talk to me). He used to also call on my phone and would want to talk to her. At first ,Brij Bhushan used to call, after the incident at the championship, a physio started calling more often. The physio would tell her, ‘the President is asking about you… the president will do anything for you’. She was very uncomfortable and upset. Why will the President of an association call a girl so often?” Anita requested.
Anita added that the complainant tried to steer clear of Singh as so much as doable since “that was the only option” and “stopped picking up his calls”. Anita said had her good good friend raised her voice, “it would have ended her career”.
Giving her private occasion, the now retired wrestler said that even when one spoke out in direction of WFI there might be penalties. “Girls were afraid to complain about the quality of food at the camps, how will they get the courage to speak up about sexual harassment?”
In her grievance, the sufferer has said that she was “traumatised” as she narrated the incident of Singh’s “forcible hug” — on the night of her gold medal victory — to her senior (Anita).
On April 21, seven female wrestlers, along with a minor, had filed separate complaints of sexual harassment and jail intimidation in direction of the WFI president at Delhi’s Connaught Place police station. The wrestlers later approached the Supreme Court, stating that the police weren’t registering FIRs. Subsequently, the police registered two FIRs.
In the two FIRs filed by Delhi Police there have been on the very least two conditions of the WFI chief demanding “sexual favours” in lieu {{of professional}} assist; shut to fifteen incidents of sexual harassment that embrace 10 episodes of inappropriate touching, molestation that options working palms over breasts, touching the navel; a lot of conditions of intimidation along with stalking.
