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Timeline: From wrestlers’ protest to WFI suspension | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The following is the timeline of the chain of events that led to the suspension of the Wrestling Federation of India by UWW, the sport's global governing body.January 18: Wrestlers begin protest at Jantar Mantar, accuse WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh Sharan of sexual exploitation and intimidation, demand his resignation and dissolution of the federation.*Brij Bhushan refutes all charges.January 19: Commonwealth Games champion wrestler and BJP member Babita Phogat meets wrestlers, says she will speak to the government.*Protesting wrestlers meet Sports Minister Anurag Thakur at his residence. No solution is found.January 20: Continuing their protest, wrestlers write a complaint letter to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha, demand the formation of an inquiry co...
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Yogeshwar Dutt’s presence in Oversight committee untenable: Bajrang Punia

The group of India’s top wrestlers levelling allegations of sexual harassment against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Singh Sharan have lost faith in an Oversight Committee member, grappler Yogeshwar Dutt, after his coach Ramphal Mann was purportedly heard giving details of the hearing during a sting operation by a news channel. Mann purportedly said that Yogeshwar told him that there was no irrefutable proof about the allegations of sexual harassment against the WFI president. In the nearly seven-minute long video, the coach also gives details of what two alleged victims said before the Oversight Committee and attributed the information he had to London Olympics bronze-medal winner Yogeshwar. Following the telecast of the sting operation video by ABP news, To...