The Sports activities Ministry on Saturday suspended Wrestling Federation of India’s (WFI) assistant secretary Vinod Tomar, a fallout of the grapplers’ allegations of sexual harassment and corruption in opposition to the sports activities physique’s chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The ministry additionally cancelled the Open championship, which was to start in Sharan’s UP stronghold of Gonda.
Sources within the ministry mentioned Tomar’s presence will likely be “detrimental to the event of this high-priority self-discipline”. Sources additionally mentioned that the soon-to-be-formed oversight committee of the ministry can have the powers to take all choices on issues regarding Indian wrestling.
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On the finish of a marathon assembly late on Friday evening, Sports activities Minister Anurag Thakur mentioned that the federal government determined to type an oversight committee to probe the fees levelled by among the nation’s prime wrestlers, together with Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Ravi Dahiya, in opposition to Sharan and his physique.