New Delhi: The Supreme Court has removed the stay imposed on elections to the executive committee of the Wrestling Federation of India by the Gauhati high court.A division bench of Justice Aniruddha Bose and Justice S.V. Bhatti heard a plea by the Andhra Pradesh Amateur Wrestling Association against the high court stay, reported LiveLaw.The bench also issued notice.The elections to the WFI were originally scheduled for July 11. It was initially stayed by the Gauhati high court after the Assam Wrestling Association sought to be included in the electoral college as a state unit of the WFI. The court has sought responses from the Wrestling Federation and the Union government by July 26 and set July 28 as the next date of hearing. Meanwhile, the Tripura state wing of the WFI has also petitioned the high court to be included in the electoral college, leading to concerns over further delays.It is still not clear if the elections can be held.The federation is facing elections after a 40-day protest at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar by India’s top wrestlers against the lack of police action on serious allegations of sexual harassment against its chief, the Bharatiya Janata Party MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.Union sports minister Anurag Thakur had promised the protesting wrestlers that fresh elections will be held to select leadership for the federation, which Brij Bhushan headed for 12 years.Allegations of rampant wrongdoing surround Brij Bhushan and his assistant secretary Vinod Tomar.Brij Bhushan is supposed to appear before a trial court today, in connection with the sexual harassment allegations.The United World Wrestling (UWW), the international governing body for amateur wrestling, had earlier said that failure to uphold the deadline for election to the WFI “may lead UWW to suspend the federation, thereby forcing the athletes to compete under a neutral flag.”In June, the International Olympic Committee asked the Indian Olympic Association to “address a number of ongoing issues affecting Indian Sports Federations,” in a coordinated manner and in accordance with the rules and directives of the International Federations concerned.It then stressed that this “includes, in particular, the situation of the Wrestling Federation in India.”