The Delhi High Court on Friday restored the mandate of the Indian Olympic Association’s (IOA) ad committee to manage and run the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). The Court has left it up to the IOA to reconstitute the ad hoc committee.
This was passed as an interim order by the court related to the plea of the renowned wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik. It stated that IOA’s decision to withdraw the committee for the WFI is not compatible with its obligations. The court has left the decision of reconstituting the committee up to the IOA.
The wrestlers, who protested against the then WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, had knocked on the doors of the court earlier in 2024 to declare the elections to select office bearers as illegal.
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