“The matter is under investigation by the Delhi Police. If there’s any truth to the charges, an arrest will be made,” stated WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan | File
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Embattled Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Tuesday responded to the protesting wrestlers, who gathered at Haridwar on Tuesday and threatened to throw their medals in the Ganga as a mark of protest in opposition to him, saying that the costs in opposition to him are already being probed by the Delhi Police.
Mr. Singh, who’s going through allegations of sexual harassment by feminine wrestlers, added that the determination by the grapplers to consign their laurels to the waters was purely a stand taken by them. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, the six-time BJP MP stated, “The matter is under investigation by the Delhi Police. If there’s any truth to the charges (levelled against him by the wrestlers), an arrest will be made,” the WFI chief added.
While the grapplers arrived in the holy metropolis on Tuesday to consign their medals to the Ganga, farmer chief Naresh Tikait talked them out of it. The wrestlers later issued a five-day ultimatum to the authorities to act in opposition to the WFI chief. “Today, they went to Haridwar to immerse their medals in the Ganga. But later, they handed them to Tikait. It’s their stand, what can we do?” he added.
Olympians Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat, who’ve been demanding the removing and arrest of the WFI president over allegations of sexual harassment, reached Haridwar earlier on Tuesday to immerse their medals in the Ganga.
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Earlier, the wrestlers took to Twitter to share a publish about the occasions which have unfolded in the current previous and the method authorities dealt with the state of affairs.The protesting grappler stated they may go to Haridwar and throw their medals in the Ganga at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. In their publish, the wrestlers stated, “You saw everything that happened on May 28, how police treated us and the way they arrested us. We were protesting peacefully, our place has been taken away and the next day serious cases and FIR were filed against us. Have the wrestlers committed any crime by demanding justice for the sexual harassment that happened to them? The police and the system are treating us like criminals, while the oppressor is taking jibe moving freely. He is even openly talking about changing the POSCO Act.”
“Yesterday, many of our women wrestlers were hiding in the fields. The system should arrest the oppressor but it is engaged in breaking and intimidating the victim women to end their protest,” the grapplers stated. They claimed the medals that they received for the nation don’t maintain any which means or significance for them anymore.
”It shouldn’t be lower than loss of life for us considering of returning medals however how can we dwell compromising our self-respect? We don’t want these medals anymore. If we converse in opposition to exploitation, they put together to put us in jail,” the wrestlers stated. ”We are going to shed these medals in the Ganga. Our medals which we earned after onerous work are as sacred as River Ganga. These medals are sacred for the whole nation and the proper place to hold the sacred medal can be holy Ganga and never our unholy system which masquerades us and stands with our oppressor after making the most of us. The medal is our life, our soul. We will sit on starvation strike at India gate until loss of life,” they added in their publish.
On Sunday, Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia together with Vinesh Phogat and Sangeeta Phogat have been detained by Delhi Police whereas trying to march to the new Parliament constructing the place they deliberate to stage an indication.An FIR was filed beneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 147, 149, 186, 188, 332, 353, Section 3 of the PDPP Act, stated Delhi Police.
