Ex-WFI chief tells hugging, touching without sexual intent is OK!

NT Correspondent

New Delhi: Outgoing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh (L), accused in a case of alleged sexual harassment of women wrestlers, on Wednesday told a Delhi court that hugging or touching a woman without a sexual intent is not an offence.

Singh made the submissions before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Harjeet Singh Jaspal through his lawyer while opposing framing of charges against him.

The court on Wednesday started hearing arguments on point of whether to frame the charges against Singh and co-accused and suspended WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar.

"These cosmetic grounds won't hold that I (complainant) was under threat. If you (complainants) are moving freely and for five years you did not come forward and then saying that you were under threat is not a valid explanation," he said.