IMAGE: Three-time world champ Risako Kawai has lent her support to the protesting Indian wrestlers. Photograph: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
Tokyo Olympics gold medallist and three-time world champion grappler Risako Kawai of Japan has come out in support of the protesting Indian wrestlers in their combat in opposition to former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Top Indian grapplers, together with Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik have been protesting on the iconic Jantar Mantar right here demanding the arrest of Brij Bhushan, who has been accused of sexual harassment of seven girls athletes, together with a minor.
“I hope it will likely be an surroundings the place Indian athletes can follow with peace of thoughts,” Kawai wrote retweeting a BBC News video on the wrestlers’ protest.
Kawai, who gained the 57kg girls’s freestyle gold in Tokyo, is the primary high-profile worldwide wrestler to return out in support of the protesting Indian wrestlers.
Both Vinesh and Bajrang are possible medallist in this 12 months’s Asian Games in Hangzhou, China however for over a month they haven’t been practising, demanding justice for the alleged victims.
The Delhi Police have filed two FIRs — one associated to the complaints of a minor wrestler underneath the Prevention of Child Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act — in opposition to Brij Bhushan, however a concrete step is but to taken because the investigation remains to be on.
