New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- A Delhi court last week acquitted former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, saying in its ruling that the allegations of sexual harassment against him were part of a "deep conspiracy which seems to be politically motivated", and calling them "false" and "fabricated", the Hindustan Times reported.

Singh, a former BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh, was acquitted along with Vinod Tomar, former WFI assistant secretary, for lack of evidence, two years after the trial began.

In a detailed judgement seen by HT, additional chief judicial magistrate Ashwini Panwar notes that, "I have no hitch in saying that the version given by the victims. discredits the prosecution case completely and also shows ...