The Delhi Police chargesheet has implicated Vinod Tomar, the assistant secretary of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), for actively assisting and enabling WFI President and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in alleged sexual harassment cases filed by six prominent women wrestlers. Tomar is named as a co-accused in two of the six complaints. The chargesheet reveals that Tomar deliberately ensured that the victims were alone during their meetings with Singh on three separate occasions, by intentionally preventing their husbands or coaches from accompanying them to Singh’s office-cum-residence on Ashoka Road in Delhi.
In addition to his association with the WFI for more than twenty years, Tomar is facing charges under IPC sections 506 (criminal intimidation), 109 (abetment), 354 (outraging modesty of a woman), and 354 A (sexual harassment). However, he could not be reached for comment regarding the allegations.
In the chargesheet, which has been reviewed by The Indian Express, it is stated that Tomar completely denied the allegations during the interrogation.
With reference to one of the wrestlers’ complaints, the chargesheet mentions, “The complainant (statement under Sections 161 and 164) alleges that when she visited the WFI office in Delhi along with her husband to meet Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the accused Vinod Tomar allowed only her to enter the office, intentionally excluding her husband. It was on that day that Brij Bhushan allegedly molested her. The following day, her husband was once again prevented from entering, and she was molested again.”
These two incidents reportedly occurred in 2017. On the first occasion, Tomar purportedly instructed the complainant’s husband to wait outside the premises of the WFI office. On the second instance, her husband was allegedly asked to wait near Tomar’s room at the WFI office.
