Claiming to be the uncle of the "minor" girl, Amit Pehlwan has hit out at the protesting wrestlers, saying that they are "misleading" his family and using them to frame Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

The protesting grapplers, including Olympic medallists Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik and Asian Games gold medallist Vinesh Phogat, have been demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan, who they have accused of sexually harassing several women wrestlers, including a minor. However, Amit claimed that the wrestlers are carrying out a scam as his brother's daughter's (niece) age has been changed to 16 years, so that the grapplers can "wrongly utilize" the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act. He said the girl's date of birth is 22-02-2004. 

"The POCSO Act cannot be used here. The victim is 20-year-old. Is this not a wrong use of POCSO Act?" he said during an interaction with reporters in Rohtak. Amit, who does not share a good rapport with his brother (the girl's father), said he got to know about the entire issue 10-15 days back when police came to his house as part of their enquiry. 

"The SIT team visited our house with two sub-inspectors, two ladies and they conducted their enquiry."Some players from Punjab, Sakshi and Vinesh misled my brother. They are shedding fake tears (Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat). 

"They thought about using other tactics - whether by using the women card, POCSO card, the objective was to go after the leader (Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh) by hook or crook," claimed Amit.