The protesting wrestlers including Sakshee Malikkh, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia who were manhandled, detained, and lodged FIR by Police on Monday at Jantar Mantar when they attempted to move towards the new Parliament building for 'Mahila Mahapanchayat'.

Following the treatment, the wrestlers who have been protesting from quite some time have decided to immerse their medals received in Olympics and other such prestigious championships in the river Ganga at 6 pm, and that they would then begin an amaran anshan (indefinite hunger strike) at Delhi’s India Gate.

"These medals are our lives, our souls. There would be no reason to live after throwing them in the Ganga today. So, we will stage a hunger strike until death at India Gate after that," read the statement in Hindi.

The protesting wrestlers as stated had later gathered on the banks of the Ganga at Haridwar to immerse their medals as an act of protest, however, they were stopped from doing so by the intervention of president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union Naresh Tikait on Tuesday evening.

Tikait took away the medals from them and bought five days of time from the top wrestlers who demands the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on charges of sexual assault, which Singh has denied.

After seeking five days from them, the farmer leader, Tikait while speaking to the journalists said, that he could not let the players give up their medals.

“What will these daughters be going through while thinking of throwing their medals to protect their honour? I am taking their medals but we will continue our fight,” he said.