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'Will Restart Satyagraha': Undeterred Wrestlers After Delhi Police Clears Protest Site

The protest organisers and others have been booked for rioting and obstructing public servant in discharge of duty, Delhi police said.

After major clashes erupted between wrestlers, their supporters and Delhi police, the latter has now filed an FIR against protest organisers and others in connection with the incident at Jantar Mantar on Sunday.

Just two kilometers away from the inauguration ceremony of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, wrestlers were pushed, shoved and detained by Delhi police on the claims that they breached the security cordon while trying to move towards the building for a planned women's 'Mahapanchayat'.

Immediately after the wrestlers were pushed into buses and taken to different locations, the police officers began clearing the protest site by removing the cots, mattresses, coolers, fans and the tarpaulin ceiling along with other belongings of the grapplers.

Several videos on social media showed police personnel physically manhandling the wrestlers. Top grappler Sakshi Malik said the wrestlers' protest was not over yet and that they would return to Jantar Mantar as soon as Delhi Police releases them.

"Never thought a day will come when we will have to fight on streets for justice after fighting on the mat for medals. This country's daughters are strong, if they can win medals on foreign soil, then definitely they will not stop until the battle on the home soil is won," Malik wrote in another tweet and posted contrasting videos of her Olympic medal ceremony and Sunday's scuffle with police.

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