The Badminton Association of India (BAI) is forming a panel to conduct thorough investigation into the recent age-fraud complaints and will impose a ban of minimum two years on the guilty.
Multiple cases of age-fudging emerged during the All India Sub-Junior under-13 ranking tournament (June 19 to 25) in Hyderabad and at the ongoing U-13 event in Mohali, prompting Sandeep Heble, a member of the Age Fraud Committee, to shoot off a letter to BAI, urging it look into the matter.
“It is not an easy decision. We have to be 100% certain before we take any action. We already have an age fraud committee, but now we will form a team, including the State secretaries, so that a proper investigation can be done to gather evidence,” BAI secretary Sanjay Mishra told PTI.
