Boxing: India handed double suspension

NEW DELHI: India’s government suspended the national boxing federation yesterday, dealing it a fresh blow after it was frozen out by the sport’s world governing body for ‘possible manipulation’ in internal polls. Only days after the Indian Olympic Association was suspended by the International Olympic Committee over its election of a tainted official, the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) found itself on the receiving end of similar punishment. “This provisional suspension is due to the fact that the International Boxing Association (AIBA) had learned about possible manipulation of the recent IABF,” said the AIBA in a statement. The AIBA ‘will now investigate this election’, added the statement, which also singled out its concern over the election of Abhey Singh Chautala as IABF chairman after vacating the post of president.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 8^th, 2012.