Some of India's top wrestlers demanding the arrest of their federation chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harassment allegations arrived at the bank of river Ganga in Haridwar to 'immerse' their medals as a mark of protest The wrestlers had been camping in New Delhi's Jantar Mantar since April 23 demanding action against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who has denied any wrongdoing. 

Star wrestlers Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat, and Bajrang Punia, who have been at the centre of the renewed protest against Singh, announced earlier today that they, along with other protesting grapplers, will hurl their medals into the holy river at 6 pm.

"These medals are our life and soul. We are going to throw them in the Ganges. After that there is no point of living, so we will sit on a hunger strike until death at India Gate," she said in the statement written in Hindi.

Tuesday happens to be Ganga Dussera in Hardwar, a day when a lot of people are there to offer prayers. TV visuals showed wrestlers sobbing and holding their medals close as they prepared to toss the medals into the river.

Hardwar senior superintendent of police Ajai Singh said: “The wrestlers are free to do anything. If they are coming to immerse their medals in holy Ganga, we won’t stop them. Neither have I received any such instructions from my senior officials.”

Punia told India Today that there has been no communication from the government side since their announcement to immerse their hard-earned medals in the river. The wrestlers, who were removed by the Delhi Police from their Jantar Mantar protest site on Sunday, today said they sit on a hunger strike "until death" at the India Gate after immersing their medals in the Ganga. 

Delhi Police, however, is unlikely to allow the aggrieved wrestlers to shift their sit-in to India Gate, reported PTI citing officials aware of the matter.

"India Gate is not a protest site and we will not allow them (wrestlers) to protest there," PTI quoted a police source as saying.

"They have not approached us till now with any such request. If they want to protest, they will have to submit a written communication to the DCP concerned, following which a call will be taken accordingly," he said.