Country’s top rights body 'Peoples Union for Civil Liberties' on Sunday condemned “the brutal manner” by which the Delhi Police “forcibly arrested” the women wrestlers and demanded that strict action be taken against those police functionaries who indulged in “illegal action and brutal use of force” against peaceful protestors.

In a statement, the PUCL President Kavita Srivastava said that the strong-arm tactics used by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central Government through the Delhi police against the women wrestlers ironically “exposes the lie of the BJP government as being committed towards justice for women, protecting their dignity and democratic rights.”