Three folks, together with Aam Aadmi Party MLA Somnath Bharti, have been detained following the incident
IMAGE: A ruckus after an alleged scuffle between protesting wrestlers and the police at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi, on Wednesday. Photograph: PTI Photo
A scuffle allegedly broke out between the wrestlers staging a protest at Jantar Mantar right here and a few police personnel, main to go accidents to a few protesters.
Three folks, together with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti, have been detained following the incident, police stated.
In a video being circulated on social media platforms, a number of the protesters might be heard accusing a police personnel of attacking two wrestlers drunk.
The accused policeman is seen sitting in the video, whereas the protesters allege that his colleagues have been mute spectators.
Deputy Commissioner Police (New Delhi) Pranav Tayal stated Bharti got here to the protest web site with folding beds with out permission. On being requested concerning the beds, his supporters grew to become aggressive and tried to get the beds from a truck. Subsequently, a minor altercation happened following which Bharti, alongside with two others, was detained, the officer added.
Another senior police officer stated, “There have been a number of males who tried bringing cots to the protest web site. When the policemen deployed on the spot requested them concerning the cots, they acquired aggressive and the protesters joined them. They wrongfully restrained a policeman and accused him of being drunk, which was not the case. Police personnel are on the web site and the scenario is now underneath management. No protester was crushed up.”
Former wrestler Rajveer informed PTI, “The mattresses acquired moist as a result of rain, so we have been bringing folding beds for sleeping, however the police didn’t enable that. Drunk policeman Dharemendra abused Vinesh Phogat and acquired concerned in a scuffle with us.”
“They began hitting us. Bajrang Punia’s brother-in-law Dushyant and Rahul suffered head accidents. The police didn’t even let medical doctors attain the positioning. Even the ladies constables have been misbehaving with us,” he stated.
“I used to be abused and pushed round by policemen. Where are the ladies police personnel?” requested Phogat.
Punia’s spouse Sangeeta additionally claimed that she was pushed round by policemen.
Punia has known as for farmers and their leaders to assemble on the protest web site on Thursday morning.
“Delhi Police ki gundagardi ab nahi chalegi (Delhi Police’s high-handedness won’t work anymore). We will name farmers to assemble right here in numbers. We won’t tolerate it anymore. Tractors or trolleys. no matter you get, simply come right here,” he stated.
The wrestlers have been staging a sit-in at Jantar Mantar since April 23. They have levelled allegations of sexual harassment towards Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who can be a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Uttar Pradesh.
The protesters have been demanding prison motion towards Singh for the alleged sexual harassment and intimidation of seven feminine wrestlers, one in all whom is a minor.
The Delhi Police filed two FIRs towards the WFI president on Friday on the allegations of sexual harassment levelled towards him by the wrestlers.
