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Bajrang Punia threatened to re-launch the wrestlers' agitation by June 17 unless former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is arrested by the Delhi Police by June 15. The wrestlers recently called off their protest after a request from the government but might reignite tensions if Brij Bhushan is not apprehended.
“If the government fails to arrest him by June 15, we will re-launch our agitation by June 17. The agitation will be started either at Jantar Mantar or Ramlila Maidan,” Punia said.
“If Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is not arrested at the earliest, the six other complainants will also be forced to change the statement the way a minor girl changed her statements. He is a powerful man and the minor girl’s father had already stated that they are under pressure and the same way these other six complaints are also undergoing similar circumstances,” the Olympic medallist said at a Khap Mahapanchayat in Sonepat.
“The union ministers told us that the former WFI chief will be arrested after police found sufficient evidence against him. We are on our own collecting evidence against him and providing the same to Delhi police,” he added.
Punia also claimed that the woman wrestler who was taken to the WFI office by the police to recreate the crime scene was shocked to see Singh there. He expressed shock that a woman player had to visit the WFI office to recreate the scene. “The woman player who accompanied Delhi police to recreate the crime scene against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is mentally upset and the complaints are going through a mental trauma,” he said.
He said that Singh contacted them in January when they started an agitation against him. “Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh had told the agitators that he is ready to accept whatever Bajrang says and he requested us to take a step back but we continued our fight against this strong man. We don’t know politics and I assure you that we are fighting for our daughters’ justice,” he added.
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