Neeraj Bali, May 23 -- The Delhi High Court has allowed celebrated wrestler and Haryana Congress MLA Vinesh Phogat to participate in the upcoming Asian Games selection trials, while strongly criticising the selection policy of the Wrestling Federation of India as exclusionary and unfair towards athletes returning after maternity leave.
The order was passed by a bench comprising Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia during the hearing of Phogat's appeal against an earlier single-judge order that had denied her immediate relief regarding participation in the trials.
The court directed that Phogat be allowed to compete in the Asian Games selection trials scheduled for May 30 and 31. It also ordered that the entire trial process...