A Delhi trial court on Thursday granted bail to outgoing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP parliamentarian Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in the sexual harassment case registered by six women wrestlers.

The public prosecutor representing Delhi police asked the court to try the accused according to law and impose certain conditions if relief was granted.

When the court asked the prosecutor if he was opposing the bail application, he said: “I am neither opposing nor supporting. The application should be dealt with as per law,” he told the court.

Opposing the bail plea, the counsel appearing for the complainants said the accused was very influential.

“Bail should not be granted. If at all it is granted, strict conditions must be imposed. Witnesses have been approached from time to time, no threat though,” he told the court.

Speaking to The Telegraph, a trial court lawyer said it was shocking that Delhi police, which had earlier indicted Singh in its chargesheet and said he was “liable to be prosecuted and punished for offences” of sexual harassment, molestation and stalking”, did not categorically oppose his bail plea.

“It is appalling that Delhi police did not oppose his bail plea even though he is facing serious charges of sexual harassment of six women wrestlers. Instead, the police chose to be very gentle when asked by the court whether they were opposing the bail. In normal circumstances, Delhi police would vehemently oppose the bail application of an accused of Singh’s stature on the ground that the accused is an influential person and there is the possibility of witnesses being threatened or tampering with evidence.”

The court on Thursday also allowed the bail application of suspended WFI assistant secretary and co-accused Vinod Tomar.

“I am granting bail on a bond of Rs 25,000 each with certain conditions,” additional chief metropolitan magistrate Harjeet Singh Jaspal said.

The court directed the accused not to leave the country without its prior permission and said they would not, directly or indirectly, indulge in threat or inducement to the complainants or witnesses.

The Delhi police had filed the chargesheet on June 15 after some of the country’s top men and women wrestlers protested for weeks at Jantar Mantar, braving the elements and police highhandedness, to press for Singh’s arrest.

Several retired IPS officers had earlier accused the police of compromising the probe because of “political interference”, and underlined that the two FIRs in the case had been registered only after a prod from the Supreme Court.