Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) assistant secretary Vinod Tomar ‘intentionally aided’ and ‘facilitated’ former WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who has been accused of sexual harassment by six feminine wrestlers of the nation.
Two of the six complaints listed Tomar as a co-accused. According to the cost sheet, he “intentionally” and “purposefully” prevented the husband in a single case and the coach within the different from accompanying the complainants once they went to satisfy Brij Bhushan on three separate events on the latter’s office-cum-residence on Ashoka Road in Delhi.
Vinod Tomar, who was related to the WFI for greater than 20 years, has been charged with violating the Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 506 (felony intimidation), 109 (abetment), 354 (outraging modesty of a girl) and 354 A (sexual harassment). However, the allegations introduced in opposition to the previous WFI official have been reportedly fully denied by him throughout interrogation.
The cost sheet made reference to a criticism made by one of many wrestlers and talked about, “The complainant (statement under Sections 161 and 164) has made the allegation that when she had gone to the office of the WFI in Delhi along with (her husband) to meet Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the accused, Vinod Tomar, allowed only the victim to enter the office and intentionally did not allow (her husband) inside the office and it was on that day that Brij Bhushan molested her. The next day, (her husband) was not allowed to enter, and the victim was molested again.”
It added, “The intent of Vinod Tomar in not allowing her husband to sit or wait outside Brij Bhushan’s office and rather make him sit near his office implies clear mala fide intent on his part as the door of Brij Bhushan’s room was not visible from outside the office of Vinod Tomar.”
The two claimed occurrences happened in 2017. Vinod Tomar allegedly requested that the complainant’s partner wait exterior the WFI workplace the primary time. The second time, her husband was advised to remain close to Vinod Tomar’s chamber on the WFI workplace.
The chargesheet asserted that the ex-WFI worker additionally referred to as the wrestler to his residence the place “he humiliated and mentally harassed her on the basis of her failure to secure a position at the Olympics.” When one other complainant was instructed to go to the WFI head in his workplace in an identical occasion in 2022, Vinod Tomar ordered her coach to attend exterior.
The cost sheet knowledgeable, “The complainant, in her statement under Section 164, has specifically stated that Vinod Tomar went inside the chamber of the accused, Brij Bhushan, and thereafter asked the victim to go inside the chamber alone, and purposefully stopped the coach from going inside, and closed the door.”
“When the victim was alone inside the chamber of the accused, Brij Bhushan, the accused made indecent sexual advances seeking sexual favours. Thereby, Vinod Tomar aided and facilitated the commission of the above offence in a planned manner,” it concluded.
Notably, Vinod Tomar was suspended in January of this yr by the Union Ministry of Sports. The motion was taken after the protest by the wrestlers in opposition to the wrestling federation and its chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
