Wrestlers' Protest Sparks Controversy and Calls for Judicial Intervention.

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Wrestlers' Protest Sparks Controversy and Calls for Judicial Intervention.
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Members of India's 1983 World Cup-winning cricket team, except for BCCI president Roger Binny, have expressed concern over the manhandling of leading Indian wrestlers by security personnel in Delhi and the possibility of athletes dumping their medals in the Ganga river as part of their ongoing protest against the non-action against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, against whom the wrestlers have levelled accusations of sexual abuse and exploitation. The wrestlers' protest started in January, and they have alleged that Singh sexually abused and exploited women wrestlers, including a minor, over the past decade.

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