According to solicitor general Tushar Mehta, the Delhi police will file a first information report (FIR) in response to a complaint made by seven female wrestlers, one of whom is a minor, accusing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment.
“The FIR will be registered today. Nothing survives now,” Mehta side the bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha, which was considering a petition filed by three of the top women wrestlers seeking directives to file a criminal complaint based on their April 21 complaint to the Delhi police.
After a week, when the petitioners showed the court a sealed cover containing sensitive information about the threat to the complainant's life, the bench took the statement on record and posted the matter. Mehta was also given access to the materials by senior attorney Kapil Sibal, who argued on behalf of the petitioners.
Sibal emphasised the need of ensuring the protection of all the complainants, claiming that the young girl left Delhi out of fear for her safety, and he asked for the creation of a special task force to look into the issue that would be under the supervision of a former Supreme Court judge.
The court ordered the city police commissioner to look through the evidence Sibal submitted, determine whether the girl is in danger, and take appropriate security measures. The judges ruled that this directive did not hinder the police from independently determining whether the remaining six complainants were still in threat.
Mehta, who represented the Delhi Police in court on Thursday, said to the Supreme Court that the Delhi Police believed that the complaint might require an initial investigation before an FIR was filed.
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