‘Cut power, no water at Jantar Mantar’: Bajrang Punia targets Delhi Police after FIRs against WFI chief

Hours after the Delhi Police registered First Information Reports (FIR) in opposition to Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Friday, Olympic medalist Bajran Punia took to Instagram alleging that energy changed into reduce off on the wrestlers` protest site.

Accusing the Delhi Police of postponing meals and water deliver at Jantar Mantar, in which India`s pinnacle wrestlers were protesting the sexual harassment allegations levelled in opposition to Singh, he brought that barricades have additionally been placed up. Wrestlers had been additionally requested to give up their agitation mins after the registration of FIRs, he informed his fans in an Instagram stay session.

Alleging that the ACP stated they won`t permit meals and water in irrespective of what, Punia informed mediapersons that the police officers are placing them below strain after the Supreme Court be aware to Delhi Police.

“Police stated that in case you need to protest, sleep at the road. What form of strain has come on them today, there has been no such trouble before, this has befell simplest due to the strain of the Supreme Court,” he stated.

The Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist additionally referred to as out the police for `beating up` those who had been assigned to supply components on the protest site. “Until justice is served, we can protest irrespective of how a great deal the police management tortures us,” he asserted.

In a assertion to information organisation ANI, wrestler Satyawart Kadian, husband of Olympian Sakshi Malik, wondered the police`s put off in submitting the FIR. He demanded that girls wrestlers` destiny need to be blanketed and the game be stored other than politics.

“It is right that FIR has been registered. What can we get from the FIR? Will FIR get us justice? Delhi Police need to have lodged an FIR at the first actual day. Our on-paper combat has simply started. Let`s see what our felony team & coaches ought to say. We are stressful that wrestling ought to be separated from politics & destiny of our girls wrestlers need to be secured,” he informed ANI.

Meanwhile, Delhi Commission for Women panel leader Swati Maliwal reacted to the allegations of police snapping strength and ration deliver at Jantar Mantar. She wrote, “Do now no longer document FIR for the primary 6 days, after that forestall the energy, meals and water of the agitators. Perhaps even the maximum oppressor king could now no longer have completed this to his opponent, but that is a democracy, but that is the Olympic Champion.”

After the accommodations of the 2 FIRs on the Connaught Place station six days after wrestlers took to the streets again, they referred to as it the `first victory in quest for justice.`

Earlier Punia, Vinesh Phogat, and Malik had introduced in a press convention that protests will hold till Singh, who has been accused of sexual harassment and crook intimidation through seven girls wrestlers, is placed at the back of bars.