A Delhi trial court on Tuesday granted two days' interim 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.

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Harjeet Singh granted the relief to Brij on a personal bond of Rs 25,000. The court will hear his regular bail plea on Thursday.

The court also granted interim bail to Vinod Tomar, the suspended WFI assistant secretary.

“In the matter at hand, the chargesheet has been filed without arrest. As per the police report, the accused persons have cooperated with the investigation, the accused persons have put in appearance today upon court summons, that is to say, without any coercive process,” the magistrate noted.

The judge had on July 7 summoned Brij after taking cognisance of the chargesheet. Delhi police had said there was enough evidence against Brij to proceed with the case.

In its chargesheet the police had said that based on the "investigation so far" of the complaints by six women wrestlers, Brij was "liable to be prosecuted and punished for offences" of sexual harassment, molestation and stalking.

The charges carry a prison term of up to five years.

Brij has denied all the allegations against him.

Delhi police had earlier come under attack from several retired IPS officers for allegedly compromising the probe because of "political interference" and cited how cops had registered two FIRs in the case in April only after a prod from the Supreme Court. The retired officers had also asked why Brij was being treated with kid gloves as in normal circumstances the police would have arrested an accused facing such serious sexual harassment charges.

Brij was never arrested despite a 34-day protest by the country's medal-winning wrestlers at Jantar Mantar in the capital.

The police had on June 15 filed a closure report before another trial court, recommending cancellation of the Posco (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) case against Brij for alleged sexual harassment of a minor wrestler, citing "no corroborative evidence".

On July 4 the court had sought a response from the minor wrestler and her father on the final report filed by the police.

The Pocso case, based on a now-withdrawn complaint from the minor wrestler and her father, entails a prison term of up to seven years on conviction.

Last month the minor wrestler's father had withdrawn the complaint saying it was false and had been filed in anger at Brij for discriminating against his daughter. Later he was quoted by a newspaper as saying he had been threatened by people whose names he could not reveal and that his family was "living in intense fear".