The acquittal of BJP leader and former MP Brij Bhushan Singh on charges of serial sexual harassment brought by India’s most celebrated female wrestlers is deplorable. It is the culmination of an unequal battle in which power, influence and caste equations, enabled by the highest echelons of the ruling regime, ensured impunity at every level. The complaints the women made to the authorities were systematically ignored. Brij Bhushan was, at the time, a Member of Parliament and the powerful head of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). In Brij Bhushan’s case, the Delhi Police, under the jurisdiction of Home Minister Amit Shah, simply refused to file an FIR.