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15 Jun 2023

In power

BJP — Delhi Police

Acted

Police, Delhi

Under

IPC sections 354, 354A and 354D (Singh); IPC sections including 109, 354A and 506 (Tomar); cancellation report under Section 173 CrPC (POCSO case)

Delhi Police filed a chargesheet in the Rouse Avenue court against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh under IPC sections 354, 354A and 354D on the complaints of six adult wrestlers, and against former WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar under sections including 354A, 109 (abetment) and 506 (criminal intimidation). In the POCSO Act case, police filed a cancellation report in the Patiala House court after the minor complainant and her father withdrew the allegations in fresh statements before a magistrate. The father said he had filed a false complaint out of anger; a protesting wrestler told ThePrint that the father had said his second statement was made under pressure. Singh denied the allegations when questioned by police. [3][4][1]

Court: On 10 May 2024 Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Priyanka Rajpoot ordered charges to be framed against Singh under IPC sections 354 and 354A for five of the six complainants and under section 506(1) for two of them, and discharged him of the sixth complainant's allegations. She ordered a charge of criminal intimidation against Tomar for one complainant and discharged him of abetment. [5]

Court: On 26 May 2025 a Delhi court accepted the police cancellation report in the POCSO case. [6]

Court: On 3 August 2026 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ashwani Panwar acquitted Singh and Tomar, holding that the prosecution had failed to prove the allegations beyond reasonable doubt. On 28 September 2026 Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh of the Rouse Avenue court issued notice to them on an appeal by four of the wrestlers. [2]

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