New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- Four women wrestlers on Friday moved a Delhi court challenging the acquittal of former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a sexual harassment case, calling the trial court's August 3 judgment "archaic" and based on "stereotypical assumptions".

The criminal revision petition was moved by the wrestlers through senior advocate Rebecca John before the court of special judge Digvinay Singh of Rouse Avenue Courts and is scheduled to come up for hearing on Saturday.

The plea said that the judgment of acquittal was "unsustainable in law" and was based on conjectures and surmises, instead of well-settled principles of law. "The judgment is unsustainable in law and is founded on a manifes...