Topic: Women wrestlers

India’s star wrestler Vinesh Phogat who led a historic protest against former WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, accusing him of sexual harassment, will be up against Yusneylys Guzman Lopez of Cuba in the women's freestyle 50kg semifinals later tonight at 9:45 PM (IST).

A Delhi Court on Friday framed sexual harassment charges against BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Singh with respect to five women wrestlers.

Wrestler Vinesh Phogat announced her decision to return the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting honor awarded to her in 2020, along with the Arjuna Award, in a strongly-worded open letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and shared on her social media platforms on Tuesday evening.

Four out of the six female athletes who have leveled allegations of sexual harassment against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the former president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have submitted audio and video evidence in support of their claims.

Olympian Sakshi Malik who is one of the front figures of wrestlers’ protest, said that one of the seven female wrestlers, who is a minor, has altered her statement against Wrestling Federation of India and BJP MP, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh due to pressure.

The members of the 1983 World Cup-winning cricket team on Friday said that they are distressed and disturbed at the unseemly visuals of “our champion wrestlers being manhandled.”