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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Namita Singh

India’s former wrestling chief cleared over sexual harassment of minor

A court in Delhi has formally closed a sexual harassment case filed by a wrestler – who was a child at the time – against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the former chief of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and a senior figure in India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

On Monday, Additional Sessions Judge Gomti Manocha at Patiala House Courts accepted a police report recommending the case’s closure, nearly a year after investigators found no supporting evidence.

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