The Delhi Police, on Saturday, urged the court docket to border prices in opposition to former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh within the case registered by ladies wrestlers for alleged sexual harassment. “Delhi Court docket has jurisdiction to do that case,” the police knowledgeable the Further Chief Metropolitan Justice of the Peace (ACMM), Priyanka Rajpoot, as per information company PTI.
Whereas concluding the arguments on the Rose Avenue Court docket, Further Public Prosecutor (APP) Atul Srivastava, representing Delhi Police, strictly maintained that the incidents of possible sexual harassment, no matter whether or not they occurred overseas or inside the nation, had been all part of one transaction. This offers the court docket the jurisdiction required to listen to the case, he mentioned, reported information company ANI.
Srivastava additionally argued that with a view to apply the part on sexual harassment, intention just isn’t a requisite issue; data alone is ample.
In response to ANI, he additionally acknowledged the delay in submitting complaints and submitted the explanations behind them earlier than the court docket. The place the place the ladies wrestlers got here from worshipped the sport of wrestling. The worry that their profession can be jeopardised if this incident got here out within the open scared them off from reporting it, submitted Delhi Police.
The counsel additionally argued that the accused was conscious of his act, which was mirrored via his response to the victims’ statements. He justified his acts of touching their breasts on the pretext of checking their respiration capability, a ‘fatherly’ act.
The prosecution questioned the necessity for justification if no such act was executed and said that Bhushan knew of his deeds.
The matter needed to be argued afresh because the earlier decide had been transferred on the stage of framing prices. Delhi Police, nonetheless, has filed a cost sheet in opposition to Brij Bhushan underneath IPC sections 354 (assault or felony power to lady with intent to outrage her modesty), 354-A (sexual harassment), 354-D (stalking), and 506 (felony intimidation), reported PTI.
Delhi Police started the arguments on Thursday on the case lodged primarily based on the complaints of six feminine wrestlers.
In response to Srivastava, there have been a number of sexual harassment incidents inside India in Karnataka and Delhi, in addition to overseas in Kazakhstan, Tokyo, Mangolia, and Jakarta. The accused Brij Bhushan slid his fingers underneath the ladies wrestlers’ t-shirts to the touch their breasts and stomachs whereas they had been stretching within the enviornment, as per ANI.
As per the complaints, the victims had been additionally molested in Bhushan’s workplace and WFI whereas their members of the family had been stopped outdoors by the co-accused, Vinod Tomar.
Defence Counsel Rajiv Mohan earlier argued that the court docket doesn’t have the jurisdiction to strive offences dedicated overseas because the sanction underneath Part 188 CrPC is unavailable.
Nonetheless, it was additionally famous by the court docket that no sanction is required if the offence is dedicated each in India and outdoors India. The court docket additionally recognised Srivastava’s argument that it was a unbroken offence and that the accused molested the victims each time he acquired the prospect and didn’t cease at any specific time.
As per PTI, the police fully rejected the accused’s conflicting reasoning and concluded its arguments on charging Singh for the alleged offences.
The matter is subsequent scheduled to be heard on January 20.