India, Aug. 10 -- A week after acquittal in a sexual harassment case, former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Monday alleged that "a conspiracy" was hatched against him after he defeated Congress leader Deepender Hooda in the wrestling body's election.

Singh, a BJP leader, claimed that subsequently some women wrestlers were made to speak against him under pressure from the Hooda family.

Talking to reporters at his residence in Vishnoharpur, about 40 km from Gonda city, Singh said the Delhi court's decision reflected what he has been saying from the beginning.

Saying that he was repeatedly portrayed in media debates as an accused in a rape case, he claimed he was not present with the wrestlers a...