Reported By:| Edited By: PTI |Source: PTI |Updated: May 04, 2023, 01:36 PM IST
New Delhi: Delhi Commission For Women chief Swati Maliwal on Thursday met wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar right here, hours after a scuffle broke out on the spot between the grapplers and police, resulting in a few protesters getting injured.
Before the assembly, Maliwal had alleged that she was not being allowed to fulfill the wrestlers.
In a video shared by her on Twitter, she might be seen telling policemen that she holds a constitutional put up and wished to fulfill the protesters.
In response to her tweet, DCP, New Delhi, tweeted, “Hon’ble Chairperson DCW was stopped at the barricade by an officer and let go immediately. She is presently inside at the protest site. There is no restriction on individual entry to Jantar Mantar.”
Maliwal later tweeted in Hindi: “I am sitting with wrestlers who are protesting at Jantar Mantar. They are telling me that last night some police personnel, who were inebriated, misbehaved with them and attacked them. After writing down the complaints, Delhi Commission For Women will act on them.”
She advised PTI that she had spoken to the ladies protesters and recorded their statements intimately.
“According to them, some of the officers of Delhi Police were drunk on Wednesday night. They dragged some of these women and beat them. They abused them and even pulled their hair,” she mentioned.
According to their allegations, there have been solely male officers on the spot then, she mentioned.
Maliwal mentioned the DCW might be issuing a discover to police over the incident and can be certain that motion is taken in opposition to the responsible.
Maliwal mentioned 40 FIRs have already been registered in opposition to WFI chief Brij Bhushan Singh — a sexual harassment accused in opposition to whom the wrestlers are on protest.
“Now an FIR under POCSO Act has also been registered against him, yet he is not arrested,” she mentioned.
Delhi Police is but to file statements of the victims underneath part 164 CrPC and whereas Brij Bhushan sits inside an AC room, the ladies listed below are out on avenue protesting and crying for justice, she mentioned.
“The authorities are trying to protect Singh. Otherwise, in any case of sexual harassment, police immediately records victims statements under section 164 CrPC,” she mentioned.
Referring to the 2 FIRS registered in opposition to Singh, she mentioned these FIRs had been additionally registered after a niche of six days and solely when the Supreme Court directed the Delhi Police to take action.
“FIRs should be registered against DCP New Delhi and Parliament Street SHO for not registering FIRs immediately after the complaints were received. Only if senior officers are suspended, they will know that their moral responsibility is to stand with the victims,” she mentioned.
Maliwal mentioned even she was dragged and pulled inside a police van when she got here to Jantar Mantar final night time.
The wrestlers have levelled allegations of sexual harassment in opposition to Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who can also be a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Uttar Pradesh.
The wrestlers have alleged that they had been crushed up by some policemen Wednesday night time.
According to them, two wrestlers, Rahul Yadav and Dushyant Phogat, had been injured within the combat. Vinesh Phogat, an award successful wrestler, too acquired head accidents.
On Wednesday night time, police had detained Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Singh Hooda and Swati Maliwal once they had gone to the spot to assist the wrestlers.
