Overview

• The WFI suspended 11 wrestlers on August 7 after MCD verification flagged their birth certificates as fabricated as part of an expanded crackdown on age and domicile fraud.
• The MCD said it had processed 95 delayed registrations only under Sub-Divisional Magistrate orders and denied any procedural lapse in issuing those certificates.
• Investigators traced forged documents across five Delhi zones—six in Narela, two in Najafgarh and one each in Rohini, Civil Lines and central Delhi—with some certificates issued 12 to 15 years after the athletes’ births.
• Suspension notices were issued to six newly implicated athletes, joining five others barred earlier this year after initial probes into age-fraud in junior trials.
• Neeraj Kumar, father of a Delhi wrestler, has petitioned the Sports Ministry over an alleged domicile violation by a Haryana athlete allowed to compete for Delhi.