Justice Madan B. Lokur (retd), former Supreme Court judge, criticised the top court’s handling of the wrestlers’ protest. The wrestlers had moved the apex court alleging sexual harassment by the president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Speaking at a webinar on ‘The Wrestlers’ Struggle: Accountability of Institutions’ organised by ANHAD and the National Alliance of People’s Movement on Tuesday, Justice Lokur also condemn the Delhi Police for its handling of the case, and as well as the way in which the wrestlers had been treated at Jantar Mantar, the protest venue.
Justice Lokur said that the protesters had not moved the Supreme Court without considering their actions, and that there was a series of events behind it. He said that the protesting wrestlers had been denied the right to a First Information Report (FIR) and the government had refused to make public the report of the committee set up to probe their allegations. “No one in the Ministry or in the federation (WFI) seems to be doing anything for [providing] justice to these women, including a minor,” he said.
