A Delhi court on Thursday granted regular bail ti outgoing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a case of sexual harassment of women wrestlers. The court also granted bail to WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Harjeet Singh Jaspal granted bail to Singh and Tomar on a bond of Rs 25,000 each.
The court directed the accused not to leave the country without its prior permission and not offer any inducement to witnesses in the case.
Earlier, during the hearing, the public prosecutor representing Delhi Police had asked the court to try the accused as per law and impose certain conditions if relief was granted to him.
“I am neither opposing nor supporting,” said the prosecutor when the court asked him whether he was opposing the bail application.
The counsel, appearing for the complainants, opposed the application, saying the accused was very influential.
“Bail should not be granted. If at all it is granted, strict conditions must be imposed. Witnesses have been approached from time to time, no threat though,” he told the court.
The counsel for the accused told the court that he will abide by all conditions.
“No threat etc. will take place. Law is very clear. He should be granted bail. I am undertaking to abide by conditions,” the defence counsel said.
The Delhi Police had filed a charge sheet against the six-time MP on June 15 under sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354A (sexual harassment), 354D (stalking) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
