Wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik, and others throughout their protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on April 23.
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The nation’s prime wrestlers, together with Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat, returned to the protest web site at Jantar Mantar on Sunday and demanded that the authorities makes public the findings of the oversight panel that investigated sexual harassment allegations towards Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
The wrestlers additionally demanded that an FIR be lodged towards the WFI chief, who has denied the allegations that first surfaced in January this yr when grapplers had staged a ‘sit-in’ protest and demanded that federation be disbanded.
The six-member oversight panel, headed by M.C. Mary Kom, had submitted its report in the first week of April however the authorities has not but made it public.
“We are tired of asking the government to release the findings. We have filed a complaint at a police station in Connaught Place and want an FIR to be filed against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh,” mentioned Vinesh.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal issued a discover to the Delhi police asking as to why an FIR had not been registered following the grievance submitted on April 21.
In a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) Pranav Tayal, Ms. Maliwal mentioned that the girls’s physique has obtained a grievance from one of the girls wrestlers who’ve sought an FIR towards Mr. Singh.
“She (the complainant) has informed the Commission that instead of an FIR being filed in the matter, some of the complainants and their family members have started getting phone calls enquiring about the identities of the complainants from an IPS officer posted in Department of Sports, MYAS (Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports),” Ms. Maliwal wrote.
Terming is a critical matter regarding the security of feminine wrestlers, the DCW chief requested the DCP to submit by Tuesday 4 p.m. a duplicate of FIR in the matter, causes for delay, particulars of accused individuals arrested in the matter, particulars of motion taken towards the official who leaked the complainant’s info with the officers at the Department of Sports, MYAS, amongst different particulars.
The girls’s physique additionally sought an in depth motion taken report in the entire matter by Tuesday.
When contacted, there was no response kind the Delhi Police on the matter.
(With inputs from PTI)
