New Delhi: Hours after a scuffle broke out between the protesting wrestlers and some police personnel at Jantar Mantar, Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Thursday met the grapplers and said that the DCW will take action based on the complaints she has received. Maliwal also said that the wrestlers, who are protesting since April 23, demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh alleging that he has sexually harassed female grapplers, told her that some ‘drunk’ Delhi Police personnel ‘misbehaved’ with them. 

Before the meeting, Swati Maliwal had alleged that she was not being allowed to meet the wrestlers at the protest site. In a video shared by her on her official Twitter account, the DCW chief could be seen telling policemen that she holds a constitutional post and wanted to meet the protesters.

She also said that she is “very concerned’ about the wrestlers’ safety. 

“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,” Maliwal later said in a tweet in Hindi.

जंतर मंतर पर बैठे #Wrestlers के साथ बैठी हूँ। वो बता रही हैं कैसे कल रात शराब के नशे में पुलिस के कुछ अधिकारियों ने उनके साथ बदतमीज़ी की, उनपे हमला किया। सारी शिकायतें लिखके दिल्ली महिला आयोग इनपे कार्यवाही करेगा। pic.twitter.com/j6OP4IMek4
— Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) May 4, 2023

India’s top wrestlers, including Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, and Sakshi Malik, have leveled allegations of sexual harassment against WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is also a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP.