Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday condemned the scuffle between police personnel and wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, alleging the police was "torturing" them.
Gehlot urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to take cognisance of the incident.
"When Rahul Gandhi spoke about the harassment of women during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Delhi Police reached (his residence) to seek information about the women. Now that the champion daughters, who made the country proud, are demanding justice for many days at Jantar Mantar after complaining about their harassment, the Delhi Police is torturing them instead of taking action on their complaint," Gehlot said in a tweet in Hindi.
"The Union Home Minister should take cognizance of the incident," he added.
Several wrestlers have been protesting at Jantar Mantar since April 23, levelling allegations of sexual harassment against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Uttar Pradesh.
The protesters have been demanding criminal action against Singh for alleged sexual harassment and intimidation of seven female wrestlers, one of whom is a minor.
Delhi Police filed two FIRs against the WFI president on April 28. The wrestlers, however, demand that he be arrested.
On Wednesday night, a scuffle broke out between the wrestlers staging a sit-in at Jantar Mantar and some police personnel, leading to head injuries to a couple of protesters.
The wrestlers alleged they were manhandled by the police personnel, but Delhi Police denied they used force against the grapplers.
