NEW DELHI: It's a double whammy for wrestler Satender Malik. Already serving a life ban for physically assaulting a referee, the 125kg Haryana wrestler has now been banned for four years by NADA's Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (ADDP) for failing to submit to sample collection for dope during the 70th Inter Services Wrestling Championships in October last year. Malik had won a gold medal in his weight category at the October 22-24, 2021 meet here.
TOI has learnt that Malik has been charged under 'Clause 2.3' of the anti-doping rule violation, which pertains to "evading, refusing or failing to submit to sample collection without compelling justification after notification by a duly authorised person". Malik's suspension period kicked off from June 15, the day the three-member ADDP pronounced its verdict. The panel noted that "since the athlete was provisionally suspended as evident from the notice of charge dated 10.11.2021, the athlete be given credit of period of his provisional suspension which he has already undergone for calculating his total period of ineligibility of 4 years."
