‘A good move but what about me?’

Meanwhile, Sushil Dutt Salwan, who probed the Sunita Rani doping episode two years ago, said it was a ‘‘camouflage’’ unless more action was taken. ‘‘This is not enough. It’s only a temporary remedy. One needs to go deeper into the roots to find out why and how it all happened,’’ was his reaction to the news.

Salwan said he saw a can of worms in the doping scandal that is presently eating into Indian sports. ‘‘It all depends how soon the government opens the lid and destroys the worms,’’ he added.

In Chennai, former lifter Tamil Selvan, once Pal Singh Sandhu’s protege and now a coach, felt the suspension was a step in the right direction. ‘‘Maybe, because of their long-standing fight, Sandhu kept quiet on the whole episode. Whatever the case, the worst sufferers are the weightlifters and that of Indian weightlifting that has been spoilt on international scene,’’ he said.

The Chennai coach also suspects that things could have gone wrong at the SAI laboratory level in New Delhi. ‘‘This is precisely what happened in Madasamy’s case before Manchester and it needs to be probed thoroughly,’’ said Madasamy’s coach, who was suspended after the episode.