{"id":56004,"date":"2023-06-15T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/15\/india-wrestling-federation-chief-brij-bhushan-sharan-singh-charged-sexual-harassment"},"modified":"2023-06-15T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:26:09","slug":"indian-wrestling-federation-chief-charged-with-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56004","title":{"rendered":"Indian wrestling federation chief charged with sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charges follow months of complaints against BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh by country\u2019s top wrestlers<\/p>\n<p>Police in India have filed charges of sexual harassment and criminal intimidation against the chief of the country\u2019s wrestling federation, a member of parliament with Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), following complaints by female wrestlers.<\/p>\n<p>The public prosecutor Atul Srivastav read out the charges against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh at a court hearing in Delhi. If convicted he faces up to three years in jail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/15\/india-wrestling-federation-chief-brij-bhushan-sharan-singh-charged-sexual-harassment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charges follow months of complaints against BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh by country\u2019s top wrestlersPolice in India have filed charges of sexual harassment and criminal intimidation against the chief of the country\u2019s wrestling federation, a member o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,203,42,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-world-news","category-wrestling"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56005,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56004\/revisions\/56005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}