A Delhi court on Monday acquitted former Bharatiya Janata Party MP and former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a sexual harassment case filed against him by six women wrestlers, Bar and Bench reported.

Co-accused Vinod Tomar was also acquitted by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ashwini Panwar of Rouse Avenue Courts.

Commenting on the verdict, Singh said that the judgement was a matter of happiness for him and his supporters, ANI reported.

“On the first day, when my first statement came, I had said that if any verdict or any charge is proven, I will hang myself,” he was quoted as saying by the news agency. “Today, the court acquitted me with honour…Today is a happy day.”

In January 2023, several Indian wrestlers, including medallists Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat, launched a protest against Singh, accusing him of intimidation and sexual harassment.

Seven complainants, including the minor, accused the BJP leader of demanding sexual favours for professional help on at least two occasions, and also reported 15 incidents of alleged molestation and other forms of sexual harassment. The former MP was, however, later discharged with respect to allegations made by one of the women.

Singh was forced to step down from his post after the allegations.

The police had filed a 1,000-page chargesheet in the case in June 2023 after the Supreme Court’s intervention.

Singh had been charged under sections of the Indian Penal Code pertaining to outraging a woman’s modesty, making sexually coloured remarks, stalking and criminal intimidation.

Tomar, a former assistant secretary of the wrestling federation, was charged with criminal intimidation for threatening one of the complainants.

In May 2025, a Delhi court accepted a closure report filed by the Delhi Police seeking to cancel a separate case against Singh under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The police had said that there was no “corroborative evidence” against Singh, and that the recommendation was made on the basis of statements of the girl and her father.

Edited by Neerad Pandharipande.

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