Wrestlers protest: FIR has been registered, now players should focus on their practice: Yogeshwar Dutt

"Whole conspiracy hatched by Congress leader Deepender Hooda, wrestler Bajrang Punia. We have an audio clip to prove this, will give it to Delhi Police when time comes," claims WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over wrestlers' protest.

"...You don't get justice from Jantar Mantar. If you want justice, you have to go to the Police, Court. They never did that until now. We will accept whatever the court decides..," the Wrestling Federation of India chief said.

"Akhilesh Yadav knows the truth. We know each other since childhood. 80% of the wrestlers in Uttar Pradesh belong to families with Samajwadi Party ideology. They call me 'Netaji'. They say how their Netaji is," says WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh when asked that SP chief Akhilesh Yadav didn't go to the protesting wrestlers at Jantar Mantar even when several Opposition leaders did. 

WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh speaks to media on political leaders visiting Delhi's Jantar Mantar to meet the wrestlers protesting against him.

India's top wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat and Sakshee Malik said that attempts are being made to misdirect their protest.

During their press conference on Saturday, they denied the allegations that they did not want to play the nationals. They said this allegation was baseless and the real issue was of sexual harassment.

"Some people are trying to take our protest in a different direction so I want to tell you that we deny such things and we are here to fight for justice. We are here to fight for women. They are trying to twist the meaning of our protest. people who are here to support us they are here to ask for justice for women. There is no politics going on here because women come first, politics comes after that," Bajrang Punia said at the press conference.

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday said the wrestlers staging a protest here demanding the arrest of the wrestling federation chief over sexual harassment charges are facing the predicament of a defiant accused and "no arrests", and wondered whether there is a "pliant investigation" into the matter.

Sibal, a senior advocate, is representing the wrestlers in the Supreme Court.

In a tweet, he said: "Protesting Wrestlers Predicament: A minor, 6 others traumatised, a defiant accused, a silent PMO, no arrests. A pliant investigation?"
The Delhi Police filed two FIRs against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Friday on allegations of sexual harassment levelled against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP by seven women wrestlers.

Yogeshwar Dutt, Olympic medallist wrestler and a member of the committee that probed the allegations of sexual harassment of wrestlers says, "...Police will take action only when you report it to them. They won't do it if one sits at home. Wrestlers should have done it 3 months back. I had said earlier too that if they want action, they should report it to the Police..."