New Delhi: Hours after a scuffle broke out between the protesting wrestlers and a few police personnel at Jantar Mantar, Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Thursday met the grapplers and mentioned that the DCW will take motion primarily based on the complaints she has acquired. Maliwal additionally mentioned that the wrestlers advised her that some ‘drunk’ Delhi Police personnel ‘misbehaved’ with them. The wrestlers have been staging a sit-in at Jantar Mantar since April 23 and have leveled allegations of sexual harassment towards Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who can also be a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP.
Before her assembly, Swati Maliwal had alleged that she was not being allowed to satisfy the wrestlers on the protest web site. The DCW chief additionally shared a video on her official Twitter account and might be seen telling policemen that she holds a constitutional publish and wished to satisfy the protesters. She additionally mentioned that she is ‘very involved’ in regards to the wrestlers’ security.
“I am sitting with wrestlers who are protesting at Jantar Mantar. They are telling me that last night some police personnel, who were inebriated, misbehaved with them and attacked them. After writing down the complaints, Delhi Commission For Women will act on them,” Maliwal mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.
जंतर मंतर पर बैठे #Wrestlers के साथ बैठी हूँ। वो बता रही हैं कैसे कल रात शराब के नशे में पुलिस के कुछ अधिकारियों ने उनके साथ बदतमीज़ी की, उनपे हमला किया। सारी शिकायतें लिखके दिल्ली महिला आयोग इनपे कार्यवाही करेगा। pic.twitter.com/j6OP4IMek4
— Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) May 4, 2023
Earlier on Wednesday evening, a scuffle broke out between the protesting wrestlers and a few police personnel on the Jantar Mantar, main to go accidents to a few protesters. The wrestlers have alleged that they have been manhandled by the police personnel. According to protestors, two wrestlers — Rahul Yadav and Dushyant Phogat — have been additionally injured.
The scuffle broke out round 11 pm on Wednesday when the protesting wrestlers have been bringing in folding beds for his or her evening keep and the on-duty police personnel allegedly started enquiring about that.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police on Thursday made heavy deployment of safety personnel at Jantar Mantar and put up a number of layers of barricades. Police are additionally reportedly checking autos at metropolis border factors to cease a big gathering at Jantar Mantar.
It is notable that India’s high wrestlers, together with Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, and Sakshi Malik, are demanding the arrest of WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh alleging that he has sexually harassed seven feminine grapplers, together with one minor.
