Allegations against me false and motivated: Brij Bhushan

“Nothing happens in this bizarre world without reason,” Singh said in court. He also said the real grievances of the wrestlers weren’t sexual harassment but “something else”.

“Almost every complainant changed her statement. Cosmetic and improved statements were given to implicate the accused,” Advocate Rajiv Mohan, representing Bhushan, told the court.

He also added that some complaints were not supported by a single independent witness. It was also argued by Mohan that no sexual advances were made by the accused.

Mohan said that one of the complainants, who had filed a complaint 11 years after the alleged incident, had falsely complained against Bhushan because she wasn’t selected for a tournament in 2015.

He said another complainant who couldn’t get selected in a tournament because her birth certificate was missing had given statements to falsely implicate Singh.

Reading a complaint where a wrestler had said that she hesitated to complain against the accused, Mohan said that the complainant “likes her career more than her modesty”.

As Mohan was reading the complaints where it was alleged that he inappropriately touched the wrestler under the pretext of checking her breath, Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Harjeet Singh Jaspal asked the advocate whether Bhushan was qualified to check the breathing of athletes.

The court of ACMM Jaspal was hearing arguments on the charge against Bhushan, who is facing allegations of sexual harassment and stalking among others by six women wrestlers. The matter will now be heard on October 16, where Mohan will make further arguments.