Overview
- Arun Kumar was provisionally suspended after an adverse analytical finding in out‑of‑competition tests and was removed from the Commonwealth Games Sport Entries System following the ruling on Thursday.
- Tulika Maan was provisionally suspended for three whereabouts failures within a rolling 12‑month period and was withdrawn from the squad after NADA issued a notice on Friday.
- Both athletes have been taken out of India’s judo delegation ahead of the team’s planned departure for Glasgow and NADA disciplinary hearings and any appeals are pending.
- Under WADA rules three whereabouts failures can carry a standard sanction of up to two years and an adverse analytical finding for anabolic steroids can lead to a longer ban if confirmed; some reports named mestanolone and stanozolol in Arun’s tests but that detail is not yet official.
- The suspensions cut India’s judo squad size and deepen scrutiny that followed earlier weightlifting doping cases, which had already reduced India’s quota and heightened anti‑doping checks before the Games.