The National Dope Testing Laboratory is under suspension by WADA since August 2019 but Rijiju assured its chief Witold Banka that all issues have been addressed.
“In February 2020, when the six-month suspension period elapsed ... some outstanding non-conformities had not been addressed successfully,” WADA said in a statement.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) then decided to test the sample of Khatun at its Montreal Laboratory in Canada and it returned positive for dehydrochloromethyl testosterone. Khatun results from June 29, 2018 to November 21, 2018 will now be annulled.
The latest dope flunk of a minor comes just seven months after 16-year-old tennis player Aryaan Bhatia returned positive for a banned substance (prednisone).
While the BCCI for a number of years got its sample collected by Sweden’s IDTM and tested at the NDTL, being forced to come under NADA’s ambit recently didn’t go down too well with some cricket administrators.