Just a day after the sports ministry formed an Oversight Committee, to
probe allegations of sexual misconduct against Wrestling Federation of
India (WFI) officials , top wrestlers including Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang
Punia tweeted that they were not consulted before forming the committee.Boxing champion Mary Kom was named as the head of the five-member Oversight
Committee that to probe the sexual harassment allegations against WFI
president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The government-appointed committee
will also run the day-to-day affairs of WFI for the next one month.
probe allegations of sexual misconduct against Wrestling Federation of
India (WFI) officials , top wrestlers including Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang
Punia tweeted that they were not consulted before forming the committee.Boxing champion Mary Kom was named as the head of the five-member Oversight
Committee that to probe the sexual harassment allegations against WFI
president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. The government-appointed committee
will also run the day-to-day affairs of WFI for the next one month.
The other members of the panel are Olympic medallist wrestler Yogeshwar
Dutt, former badminton player and Mission Olympic Cell member Trupti
Murgunde, ex-TOPS CEO Rajagopalan and former SAI executive director – teams
– Radhica Sreeman. “We were assured that we would be consulted before the
Oversight Committee was formed. It is very sad that we were not .
