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Wrestling with inaction

Stalling on sexual harassment case is regressive

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Security personnel detain wrestler Sakshi Malik during wrestlers protest march towards new Parliament building, in New Delhi, on Sunday. Photo: PTI

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It has been five and a half months since women wrestlers levelled serial sexual-harassment charges against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, head of the Wrestling Federation of India and a powerful member of Parliament (MP) of the ruling party. But in a bizarre and disturbing series of events, it is the complainants who have been manhandled by the police and are still seeking justice. Mr Singh remains at large despite having two first information reports (FIRs) filed against him, that too under pressure from the Supreme Court. Over the weekend, he defiantly held a rally, at which he declared his intention

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