The Delhi Police have filed a 1,500-page chargesheet against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh under Sections 354, 354A and 354D of the IPC and if proven guilty, he could get a maximum five-year jail term. Sources in the police said the charges were based on elaborate statements of all the six women wrestlers. Though more than 200 statements of witnesses were recorded as “supporting evidence”, only those relevant and backing the allegations levelled by the wrestlers were mentioned in the chargesheet, they said.
Section 354 deals with cases of “outraging a woman’s modesty”. The punishment ranges from a jail term of up to five years or fine, or both. Section 354A entails “physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures”; or “demanding or requesting sexual favours”; or “showing pornography against a woman’s will”, or “making sexually coloured remarks”. In 2013, this section was amended to say that anyone who sexually harassed a woman by unwelcome physical contact, advances, a demand or request for sexual favours or showing her pornography could face up to three-year imprisonment, a fine, or both.
If proven guilty, WFI president may get maximum 5-year jail
