BJP MP faces heat; court frames sexual harassment charges

New Delhi, NT Bureau: A Delhi court on Friday framed charges of sexual harassment and “outraging modesty of women” against Bharatiya Janata Party MP and former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

The case against Singh pertains to the sexual harassment of six women wrestlers. The Delhi Police registered a first information report against him in April 2023, following the intervention of the Supreme Court.

On June 15, the police filed a 1,000-page chargesheet against him. The court also ordered the framing of charges against him for criminal intimidation (Section 506 of IPC) and for using force to outrage women's modesty.

On Friday, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Priyanka Rajpoot passed the order on framing of charges against him for harassing five wrestlers.

The court said Singh has been discharged of allegations levelled against him by the sixth complainant.