The 2016 Rio Olympics medallist Indian wrestler Sakshi Malik has unfolded a few of the most heartwrenching chapters of her profession in her memoir, Witness. Malik, who stop the game just a few months in the past, made an explosive declare, alleging former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment. In her autobiography, the wrestler spoke of an incident from the 2012 Asian Junior Championship in Almaty (Kazakhstan) the place the then wrestling physique chief, Brij Bhushan, tried to harass her in his lodge room sexually.
A report within the Instances of India, highlighting excerpts from her e book, mentioned that she was despatched to Brij Bushan’s lodge room on the pretext of talking to her mother and father on the cellphone. However, what occurred later turned one of the crucial traumatic incidents of her life.
“Singh related me to my mother and father. It appeared innocent. Once I spoke to them telling them about my match and my medal, I keep in mind considering that maybe nothing unsavoury may occur in any case. However proper after I ended the decision, he tried to molest me whereas I used to be seated on his mattress. I pushed him off and began to cry.”
Sakshi additional alleged, “He stepped again after that. I believe he realised that I wasn’t going to associate with what he needed. He began saying that he had put his arms round me ‘papa jaise’ (as a father would). However I knew that was not what it was. I ran out of his room all the best way again to mine, weeping.”
It is not the primary time that the wrestler needed to face such sexual trauma in her life. She narrated one other incident from her childhood the place one in all her tuition academics touched her inappropriately.
“I had been molested in my childhood too, however for a very long time, I couldn’t inform my household about it as I assumed it was my fault. My tuition trainer used to harass me. He would name me over to his place for lessons at odd instances and generally tried to the touch me. I used to be scared to go for my tuition lessons however I may by no means inform my mother. This continued for a very long time and I saved quiet about it,” she wrote within the e book. Malik, later, informed her mom about this incident.
“My mom supported me not simply in the course of the incident with the tutoring trainer but additionally when Singh began pursuing me. I attempted to overlook about what had occurred at Almaty. That is what my mother and father suggested me to do too. They informed me to concentrate on my coaching and competitors. It does not look like a lot in the present day, however I used to be grateful that I used to be allowed to proceed to coach, at the least.”
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