In a letter to the police commissioner, the chair of the Delhi Commission for Women, Swati Maliwal, demanded the arrest of BJP MP and head of the Wrestling Federation of India, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, as well as disciplinary action against those responsible for detaining the protesting wrestlers at Jantar Mantar on Sunday.
She also requested that the Delhi Police free the female wrestlers as well as their families right now.
Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik, and Bajrang Punia were among the protesting wrestlers who were held on Sunday following an altercation with security agents who attempted to prevent them from walking to the newly inaugurated Parliament building.
Soon after, the Delhi Police declared that they would not be permitted to return to the Jantar Mantar location where they had been staging their sit-in for more than a month.
Maliwal wrote a letter to Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora in which she expressed her great sorrow about the forceful detention of female wrestlers and their families who were peacefully demonstrating at Jantar Mantar.
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She added that, more than a month earlier, numerous female wrestlers, among them a minor, had levelled severe accusations of sexual harassment against Mr. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a member of parliament, when he was serving as the president of the Wrestling Federation of India.
She claimed that when the Supreme Court intervened, two FIRs were filed against the accused, who already has about 40 other active criminal cases against him!
“However, despite a minor girl alleging sexual harassment by the accused parliamentarian, Delhi Police has failed to arrest him till date. This has forced the female wrestlers to stage a protest at Jantar Mantar which has been ongoing since the past one month,” she wrote in a letter.
For not arresting Brij Bhushan Singh yet the DCW chief questioned the Delhi Police.
“In Delhi, every day around 6 cases of sexual assault are reported and in each case, Delhi Police attempts to arrest the accused person. Then why has Brij Bhushan Singh not been arrested till date? If this is not blatant injustice, what is?” Maliwal asked.
“This apparent partisan attitude of Delhi Police which is being seen as siding with the accused parliamentarian has made a mockery of justice and forced the women wrestlers to sit and slcep on the streets of Delhi,” she further added.
“The women wrestlers today along with their families were manhandled and forcefully detained and taken away by Delhi Police. Several videos depicting the same have been going viral on social media. The manner in which these women champions are being dragged on the streets by Delhi Police is extremely unbecoming of the force,” the letter stated.
“By denying them justice and forcefully detaining them for raising their voice against sexual harassment, Delhi Police is demoralising the women and girls of this country against reporting cases of sexual harassment and fighting for justice,” it mentioned.
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