Commonwealth champion Vinesh Phogat, Olympic medalist Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik have decided to immerse their medals in the Ganga at 6 pm today. WFI Chief Brij Bhushan Singh was detained by the Delhi Police on Sunday from Jantar Mantar and released late in the evening after staging a protest against WFI Chief Brij Bhushan Singh for almost a month.

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Haridwar threatens to throw away its coveted medals in the river Ganga

Vinesh Phogat

Protesting wrestlers demanding the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Singh over sexual allegations have threatened to throw their coveted medals into the Ganga river in Haridwar at 6 pm on Tuesday. His announcement came after the Delhi Police cleared all signs of the wrestlersā€™ month-long protest.

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The police uprooted the wrestlersā€™ tent at Delhiā€™s Jantar Mantar on Sunday

All protesting wrestlers detained, Delhi Police remove tents at Jantar  Mantar

On Sunday, the police uprooted the wrestlersā€™ tent at Delhiā€™s Jantar Mantar. Sakshi Malik, an Olympic bronze medalist and a protester condemned it by posting a clip on Twitter. He wrote on Twitter, ā€˜After arresting all the wrestlers and old people, the police have started destroying our march. The lifting of our luggage has started. What kind of hooliganism is this?

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Immerse their medals in the Ganga at 6 pm today

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Sakshi wrote that all the protesting women wrestlers were going to throw medals into the Ganges because of the similarity between the sanctity of the river and their perseverance and hard work through which they had earned medals for India.