Embattled Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Tuesday responded to the protesting wrestlers, who gathered at Haridwar on Tuesday and threatened to throw their medals within the Ganges as a mark of protest towards him, saying that the fees towards him are already being probed by the Delhi Police.

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Singh, who’s going through allegations of sexual harassment by feminine wrestlers, added that the choice by the grapplers to consign their laurels to the waters was purely a stand taken by them.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, the six-time BJP MP mentioned, “The matter is under investigation by the Delhi Police. If there’s any truth to the charges (levelled against him by the wrestlers), an arrest will be made,” the WFI chief added.

While the grapplers arrived within the holy metropolis on Tuesday to consign their medals to the Ganges, farmer chief Naresh Tikait talked them out of it.

The wrestlers later issued a five-day ultimatum to the authorities to behave towards the WFI chief.

“Today, they went to Haridwar to immerse their medals in the Ganga. But later, they handed them to Tikait. It’s their stand, what can we do?” he added.

Olympians Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik and Vinesh Phogat, who’ve been demanding the removing and arrest of the WFI president over allegations of sexual harassment, reached Haridwar earlier on Tuesday to immerse their medals within the Ganges.

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Earlier, the wrestlers took to Twitter to share a put up in regards to the occasions which have unfolded within the latest previous and the best way authorities dealt with the state of affairs.

The protesting grappler mentioned they’ll go to Haridwar and throw their medals within the Ganga at 6 pm on Tuesday.

In their put up, the wrestlers mentioned, “You saw everything that happened on May 28, how police treated us and the way they arrested us. We were protesting peacefully, our place has been taken away and the next day serious cases and FIR were filed against us. Have the wrestlers committed any crime by demanding justice for the sexual harassment that happened to them? The police and the system are treating us like criminals, while the oppressor is taking jibe moving freely. He is even openly talking about changing the POSCO Act.”

“Yesterday, many of our women wrestlers were hiding in the fields. The system should arrest the oppressor but it is engaged in breaking and intimidating the victim women to end their protest,” the grapplers mentioned.

They claimed the medals that they received for the nation do not maintain any which means or significance for them anymore.

“It is not less than death for us thinking of returning medals but how can we live compromising our self-respect? We don’t need these medals anymore. If we speak against exploitation, they prepare to put us in jail,” the wrestlers mentioned.

“We are going to shed these medals in the Ganga. Our medals which we earned after hard work are as sacred as River Ganga. These medals are sacred for the entire country and the right place to keep the sacred medal can be holy Ganga and not our unholy system which masquerades us and stands with our oppressor after taking advantage of us. The medal is our life, our soul. We will sit on hunger strike at India gate till death,” they added of their put up.

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On Sunday, Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia together with Vinesh Phogat and Sangeeta Phogat have been detained by Delhi Police whereas making an attempt to march to the brand new Parliament constructing the place they deliberate to stage an indication.

An FIR was filed below Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 147, 149, 186, 188, 332, 353, Section 3 of the PDPP Act, mentioned Delhi Police.