A day after the Delhi Police cleared the sit-in site of the protesting wrestlers, the Delhi Police on Monday said they will be allowed to demonstrate at a suitable place in the city other than Jantar Mantar.

On the other hand,  released late last night from police detention, the wrestlers are still contemplating their next move even as they continued to get support from sporting fraternity after police action against top grapplers was unequivocally condemned by political and sports personalities.

“The demonstration by the wrestlers was going on smoothly at the notified place of Jantar Mantar. On Sunday, the protesters flouted the law, ignoring our repeated requests. Hence, we cleared the site and ended the dharna,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) tweeted in Hindi. “If the wrestlers will apply for permission to stage their sit-in again in the future, they will be allowed to do so at any suitable notified place other than Jantar Mantar,” it said.

Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia, along with other protesters, were booked for rioting and obstructing public servant in discharge of duty on Sunday after a scuffle with security personnel who tried to stop them from marching to the new Parliament building as it was being inaugurated.

Soon after, the Delhi Police cleared the site of their over-month-long sit-in at Jantar Mantar and said they would not be allowed to return there. The police said 700 people were detained across the national Capital. As many as 109 protesters, including the three wrestlers, were detained at Jantar Mantar. Women detainees were released later in the evening on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the Delhi Police’s first information report against grapplers, has said that protesting wrestlers ignored police warning that creating a ruckus during the opening of the new Parliament building would “harm national prestige” and will not be tolerated but they tried to march towards it.

The FIR states at least 15 security personnel, a majority of them policewomen, were injured during the scuffle on Sunday between them and the wrestlers who also ignored police request to continue their protest at Jantar Mantar.

Police said the FIR was registered against Vinesh Phogat, Sangeeta Phogat, Bajrang Punia and others on the complaint of Head Constable Madhav, who was posted at the Barakhamba police station in New Delhi district. Madhav was injured during the scuffle with the protesting wrestlers when they were detained, the FIR sated. The protesters were told to continue the protest at the notified site — Jantar Mantar,” it said.

However, as announced by them, at 11.30 am, Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik and others raised slogans and reached the first police barricade, according to the FIR.

“Despite repeatedly telling protesters, they didn’t adhere to the requests. They went ahead, jumped the first barricades and pushed police and reached the second barricade line where again the police personnel tried to stop them but they continued pushing police and also they pushed away barricades.”

 Names of 15 police personnel, including women constables who sustained injuries in the scuffle at Jantar Mantar on Sunday, were also mentioned in the FIR.

The FIR was registered under relevant sections including 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).