Two Olympic wrestlers have been detained by police in India throughout the newest protest towards the alleged sexual abuse of feminine athletes.

Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik had been amongst these making an attempt to march to Delhi’s new parliament on Sunday.

Footage confirmed protesters climbing over barricades and being carried away by the authorities.

Two-time World Championship medallist Vinesh Phogat and her sister Sangeeta had been additionally among the many nation’s high wrestlers to be detained.

“This is wrong,” Ms Malik advised reporters after she had been positioned on a bus by the authorities.

“We were walking quietly, they dragged us forcefully and detained us and they’re not even telling us where we will be taken.”

“Our people are not being allowed to march,” mentioned Mr Phogat, including that the protesters “requested with folded hands” that police allow them to go and that they might go peacefully.

Most opposition events boycotted the ceremony after criticising the federal government for not asking President Droupadi Murmu, who’s head of state, to open it.

Police claimed the protesting wrestlers had not adopted their instructions and that that they had detained those that had tried to interrupt the barricades.

“They broke the law,” Delhi’s Special Commissioner of Police, Dependra Pathak advised native media.

“Regarding further action, we would ascertain what rules have been violated and then take action by following due legal process.”

The police additionally eliminated tents and different objects from the positioning the place the protesters have been camped out for weeks.

Their dealing with of the march has been criticised by a lot of opposition politicians.

“Strongly condemn the way Delhi Police manhandled Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat and other wrestlers,” tweeted West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from the All India Trinamool Congress occasion.

“It’s shameful our champions are treated in this manner.”

Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who’s from the Aam Aadmi Party, known as the police’s behaviour “very wrong and condemnable”.

Ms Malik – the primary Indian girl to win an Olympic wrestling medal in 2016 – later tweeted that when she and her fellow protesters had been launched they might start their “satyagraha”, a type of non-violent resistance, once more.

The demonstrators accuse wrestling officers of sexually harassing ladies within the sport. That contains the top of its governing physique, Brij Bhushan Singh, who denies the claims.

Their protests started in January however had been known as off the identical month after Mr Singh was stripped of his administrative powers by the sports activities ministry and the federal government promised to research their complaints.

The Indian Olympic Association arrange a committee to research the allegations towards Mr Singh, which submitted its report weeks in the past. The committee’s findings have not been revealed but.

Police in Delhi had been additionally on guard on Sunday as a bunch of farmers tried to enter the town to help the wrestlers. That was after dozens of farmers broke down police barricades in Delhi to hitch one other protest earlier this month.