{
 "no": 42,
 "id": "case-42",
 "sk": 20230118,
 "year": 2023,
 "date": "Jan to May 2023",
 "cat": "Rights and dissent",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "Wrestlers' protest. A ruling-party MP shielded",
 "stamp": "Accusers policed, accused protected",
 "human": {
  "v": "Olympic medallists among the complainants; a minor among the original accusers",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "India's most decorated wrestlers dragged from a protest and booked",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "Top wrestlers, including Olympic medallists, sat in at Jantar Mantar accusing the Wrestling Federation chief and six-time BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexually harassing female athletes.",
 "dodge": "Police registered cases only after the Supreme Court intervened. As the new Parliament was inaugurated, the protesting wrestlers were detained, dragged away and later booked. The accused MP was never arrested. The state policed the accusers and protected the accused, and the Prime Minister said nothing.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh",
   "r": "BJP MP and WFI chief (accused)"
  },
  {
   "n": "Amit Shah",
   "r": "Home Ministry (Delhi Police)"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "Singh denied all allegations; the government said the law was taking its course and a chargesheet was filed.",
 "alleg": "The harassment allegations are <em>before the courts</em>. The accountability failure is the delay in registering cases and the policing of the complainants.",
 "alt": "Prompt, unbiased investigation of complaints against the powerful, protection for complainants, and no shielding of an accused because he holds a party seat.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "Wrestling chief charged (CNN)",
   "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/india/india-brij-bhushan-singh-charged-wrestlers-intl-hnk",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20240816215424/https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/india/india-brij-bhushan-singh-charged-wrestlers-intl-hnk/"
  },
  {
   "label": "Case only after SC (BBC)",
   "url": "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-65421389",
   "tier": 2
  }
 ],
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-42/"
}