WFI suspends 30 overage wrestlers for breaching rules; coach handed lifetime ban

The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has suspended 30 overage wrestlers successful the past period aft investigating implicit 400 cases of athletes competing illegally astatine inferior levels with fake commencement certificates.

The probe revealed that wrestlers from Haryana obtained fraudulent documents showing Delhi arsenic their birthplace to enactment successful inferior competitions, with 2 overage athletes adjacent winning medals astatine the caller Khelo India Games successful Bihar.The WFI discovered that astir wrestlers obtained fake certificates from Delhi's Narela and Rohini zones, with astir 300 cases from Narela alone. The remaining cases were from areas similar Sultanpuri and Mangolpuri successful the Rohini zone, with galore certificates originating from Begampura.

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"We bash not privation to spoil careers of wrestlers, truthful we person conscionable barred them from the inferior level competitions, similar U18 and Cadets. They should vie astatine the elder level, if they are implicit 18 they indispensable correspond their archetypal state," a elder WFI authoritative told PTI.The authoritative explained that these wrestlers, influenced by their Haryana coaches, paid bribes to get fake commencement certificates. The federation worked with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Delhi Cantonment Board to verify and analyse the complaints.

"Out of 436 cases, astir 300 were from the Narela zone, portion the remainder were from the Rohini portion similar Sultanpuri and Mangolpuri. Most of them were getting certificates from Begampura. All of them wanted to correspond Delhi since getting selected successful Haryana teams is not easy. We approached MCD and the Delhi cantonment Board aft receiving complaints and upon probe and verification it was proved they were fake certificates," the authoritative said.

The federation besides identified a pistillate wrestler astatine the Khelo India Games who submitted a fraudulent certificate allegedly issued by the Delhi Cantonment Board. The committee confirmed they had not issued immoderate specified document."Actually the coaches are to beryllium blamed. They wants their wards to triumph medals astatine competitions to go famous. That greed drives them to person overage wrestlers competing astatine inferior level," the authoritative added.The probe revealed that wrestlers paid cyber cafe owners to make fake barroom codes connected certificates. These barroom codes would show mendacious accusation erstwhile scanned, making the certificates look genuine. The WFI has present decided to cull precocious issued commencement certificates.Quiz: Who's that IPL player?In a abstracted development, the WFI has banned Sanjay Lather, a Haryana coach, for beingness pursuing a intersexual harassment ailment during the Khelo India Games."We had received a ailment that this coach, who was appointed by the authorities government, had entered the country of a pistillate wrestler aft the contention ended. The Internal Complaints Committee duly investigated the substance and decided to terminate him from each wrestling activities for life," the authoritative said.The suspended wrestlers indispensable present attack the WFI to apologize for their actions. The federation volition past see their cases individually.