Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) assistant secretary Vinod Tomar ‘deliberately aided’ and ‘facilitated’ former WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who has been accused of sexual harassment via six feminine wrestlers of the rustic.
Two of the six proceedings indexed Tomar as a co-accused. Consistent with the price sheet, he “deliberately” and “purposefully” avoided the husband in a single case and the trainer within the different from accompanying the complainants once they went to satisfy Brij Bhushan on 3 separate events on the latter’s office-cum-residence on Ashoka Highway in Delhi.
Vinod Tomar, who was once related to the WFI for greater than twenty years, has been charged with violating the Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 506 (prison intimidation), 109 (abetment), 354 (outraging modesty of a lady) and 354 A (sexual harassment). Alternatively, the allegations introduced towards the previous WFI professional had been reportedly totally denied via him all the way through interrogation.
The price sheet made connection with a criticism made via some of the wrestlers and discussed, “The complainant (commentary beneath Sections 161 and 164) has made the allegation that once she had long gone to the workplace of the WFI in Delhi at the side of (her husband) to satisfy Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the accused, Vinod Tomar, allowed simplest the sufferer to go into the workplace and deliberately didn’t permit (her husband) throughout the workplace and it was once on that day that Brij Bhushan molested her. Day after today, (her husband) was once now not allowed to go into, and the sufferer was once molested once more.”
It added, “The intent of Vinod Tomar in now not permitting her husband to sit down or wait out of doors Brij Bhushan’s workplace and quite make him take a seat close to his workplace implies transparent mala fide intent on his section because the door of Brij Bhushan’s room was once now not visual from out of doors the workplace of Vinod Tomar.”
The 2 claimed occurrences came about in 2017. Vinod Tomar allegedly asked that the complainant’s partner wait out of doors the WFI workplace the primary time. The second one time, her husband was once advised to stick close to Vinod Tomar’s chamber on the WFI workplace.
The chargesheet asserted that the ex-WFI worker often known as the wrestler to his dwelling the place “he humiliated and mentally pressured her at the foundation of her failure to protected a place on the Olympics.” When some other complainant was once suggested to consult with the WFI head in his workplace in a an identical example in 2022, Vinod Tomar ordered her trainer to attend out of doors.
The price sheet knowledgeable, “The complainant, in her commentary beneath Phase 164, has in particular said that Vinod Tomar went throughout the chamber of the accused, Brij Bhushan, and thereafter requested the sufferer to move throughout the chamber by myself, and purposefully stopped the trainer from going within, and closed the door.”
“When the sufferer was once by myself throughout the chamber of the accused, Brij Bhushan, the accused made indecent sexual advances in quest of sexual favours. Thereby, Vinod Tomar aided and facilitated the fee of the above offence in a deliberate means,” it concluded.
Significantly, Vinod Tomar was once suspended in January of this 12 months via the Union Ministry of Sports activities. The motion was once taken after the protest via the wrestlers towards the wrestling federation and its leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.