Ace wrestler Vinesh Phogat today said “she will return all her medals” after a late night scuffle between protesting wrestlers and Delhi Police intensified.
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In the midnight scuffle broke out between protesting wrestlers and Delhi Police at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday intensified today morning with Vinesh Phogat saying “she will return all her medals”. The protesting athletes alleged that police personnel attacked and abused them.
According to Delhi Police, a group of protesters led by AAP leader Somnath Bharti reached the protest carrying folding beds without permission and tried to break the barricades. In a video being circulated on social media, some of the protesters can be heard accusing a police personnel of attacking two wrestlers under the influence of alcohol, news agency PTI reported.
“We will return all the medals won at the international level and those given by the government. To what level, will we tolerate the humiliation? We are being humiliated, dragged to the ground,” Phogat said, who also broke down in a late night media interaction on Wednesday, saying that a Delhi Police personnel pushed and manhandled them.