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Seven women wrestlers submitted a complaint of sexual harassment at the Connaught Place police station in Delhi against the WFI chief on April 21. The police, though late, after Supreme Court's intervention, registered two FIRs on April 28.

The first FIR pertained to allegations levelled by a minor that has been registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act along with relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code concerning outraging modesty.

The FIR narrates the ordeal the minor wrestler had to go through with the Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. "While holding her tightly and pretending to get a picture clicked, the accused further pulled her towards himself, pressed her shoulder really hard and then deliberately slid his hand down her shoulder and brushed his hands against her breasts."

The FIRs, which have been now accessed by The New Indian Express, reveal the horrific experiences which the women wrestlers, including a 17-year-old minor girl, were facing in the presence of Singh.

As per the FIR, when Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh was harassing the minor wrestler, he told her to support him (physically) and he will return the favours. However, the wrestler somehow managed to wriggle out of his strong grip and bluntly told him "Sir mein apne balboote par yaha tak aayi hu, aage bhi mehnat karke aage tak jaugi" (I have come here on my own strength and I will go further by only working hard).

Calling Brij Bhushan Singh a 'sexual predator', the father of the 17-year-old minor wrestler, who had already brought laurels for the country by winning medals at both national and international level, said that his daughter could not muster up the courage to lodge the complaint earlier as the wrestling federation is totally under the control of the accused.