The wrestlers, who had been protesting at the Jantar Mantar, were marching to the new Parliament building on Sunday when they were detained by the Delhi Police on the way. Later the police registered FIRs against them and cleared out their protest site.

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Two days after country top wrestlers were detained by Delhi Police and had FIRs slapped against they have decided to throw their Olympic and world medals in the Ganga at Haridwar on Tuesday

India’s top wrestlers like Rio 2016 bronze medallist Sakshi Malik, Tokyo 2020 medallist Bajrang Punia and world championship medallist Vinesh Phogat have said they will throw their Olympic and world medals in the Ganga at Haridwar on Tuesday as a way of protesting the high-handedness of the police. The wrestlers also said they will sit on a fast unto death at New Delhi’s India Gate.

“These medals are our life and soul. After we put it in River Ganga, there would be no meaning for us to live. So we will got to India Gate and sit on a fast unto death,” the wrestlers said in a statement.

The wrestlers, who had been protesting at the Jantar Mantar, were marching to the new Parliament building on Sunday to hold a women’s ‘Mahapanchayat’ outside the Parliament as it was being inaugurated. But they were detained by the Delhi Police on the way. Later the police registered FIRs against them and cleared out their protest site at Jantar Mantar. When the wrestlers were being detained, they resisted, leading to dramatic images where wrestlers were being grabbed and lifted by multiple policewomen and put into buses.