From our bureau
NEW DELHI: The Chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) Mahima Rai Singh assigned the matter to ACMM Harjeet Singh Jaspal. The matter has now been listed for further hearing before the court on June 27
The court on Thursday transferred the sexual harassment case filed against former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brijbhushan Sharan Singh by the Delhi police to the additional chief metropolitan magistrate (ACMM) MP/MLA court for further hearing.
The Delhi police had on June 15 filed a 1,082 charge sheet against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP before a vacation judge charging him with sexual harassment, stalking, and assault or force to outrage the modesty of a woman based on several complaints filed by woman wrestlers, including a minor.
ACMM Jaspal is currently also hearing an application moved by the wrestlers seeking a court-monitored probe into the matter.
Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Atul Srivastava had in the previous hearing submitted before the court that a related matter was being heard by ACMM Jaspal and this matter should be also sent to the same court. The court had thus on June 15 listed the matter before the CMM for further hearing.
The Delhi police had registered two cases against Singh after the intervention of the Supreme Court on April 28– one by six women wrestlers and another by a minor woman wrestler who later changed her statements.
The Delhi police had later filed a 552-page cancellation report in Delhi Patiala House Court in the case filed by the minor woman wrestler which is listed for hearing on July 5.
The minor was among the women athletes who levelled sexual harassment charges against Singh, who headed WFI for 12 years.
