New Delhi: Solicitor General, Tushar Mehta, has told the Supreme Court that the Delhi Police, in its preliminary enquiry, found that the allegations of sexual harassment by India’s top wrestlers against Bharatiya Janata Party MP and Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh disclose commission of a cognisable offence, warranting the registration of an FIR. The wrestlers, who include Olympics, Commonwealth and world championships medal winners, have been sitting in at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi since last weekend.An apex court bench of the Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice P.S. Narasimha is hearing a writ petition filed by the complainants.While the complainants, through their senior counsel, Kapil Sibal, underlined the need to monitor the investigation by the court, SG Mehta argued that the bench needs to leave it to the Delhi Police Commissioner.The bench has decided not to dispose of the case, but to hear it again next Friday, so that it can know of the degree to which its directions have been complied with.In particular, the bench directed the Delhi Police Commissioner, Sanjay Arora, to provide adequate security to the minor victim in the case, and to make an independent assessment of threat perception to the other complainants, and if required, provide adequate security to them as well. In today’s hearing, the petitioners, through Kapil Sibal, submitted an affidavit in a sealed cover, and expressed their concern about the safety of the minor victim. The bench directed the sharing of the affidavit with the Delhi Police Commissioner through the SG, on the condition that utmost confidentiality be maintained about the identity of the minor victim. Meanwhile, the wrestlers have said that the police might file a loose and that they don’t trust it. “We we will see, observe then take a decision (on calling off the protest),” World Championship medallist Vinesh Phogat told PTI.We don’t trust Delhi Police, it might file a loose FIR: wrestlers— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) April 28, 2023‘Something else playing out’: SGSG Mehta contended that it is a sensitive issue, and while he is not against the intervention by the court as such, he alleged that “there is something else which is playing out” in the case. He told the bench that there is a tendency to approach the court under Article 32 “in every such case,” and demand the monitoring of the investigation by a retired judge of the court, when the petitioners have other legal remedies available, in the absence of registration of FIR by the police. The petitioners brought to the notice of the bench that there are 40 cases including those under section 302 of the IPC, which are pending against the accused, Singh, in the case, and there has been no action by the authorities, despite the complainants bringing the allegations to their knowledge much earlier. The SG said that there cannot be monitoring of the case by two courts – the jurisdictional court and the constitutional court, that is, the Supreme Court. When Sibal said he would like to make legal submissions in the case next Friday, the CJI observed that it is an evolving situation, and the court would like to keep an open mind on the issue.