The one-man Sushil Salwan enquiry committee, set up by the Amateur Athletic Federation of India to probe into the Sunita Rani doping scandal, has completed the enquiry process but will still need three or four days more to submit the report.“The enquiry process is over, but I will need three or four more days to compile eveything and submit the report,” Salwan said here today. Salwan said compiling all the documents and findings in such a short time was a “tough task” but he would try to submit his report as quickly as possible.Salwan, who is also one of the vice-presidents of AAFI, had initially been given a week’s time to submit the report but had been granted ten more days since “it was not possible to complete the entire process in such a short time”. On whether he would call Sunita Rani to depose again in the wake of reports that there was a “huge difference” in the amount of the banned substance nandrolone in her A and B samples taken after the 1500m event, Salwan said “there is no need to call anyone now”.Sunita, who was stripped of her gold and bronze medals after failing the dope test in the recent Asian Games in Busan, had appeared before the enquiry committee twice and vehemently denied having taken any performance enhancing drugs. The AAFI, under pressure from the world body to take disciplinary action against the drug-tainted athlete, had said that it will decide its future course of action only after receiving the report from its enquiry committee. Although Sunita’s fight for proving her innocence has received a shot in the arm after the report which quoted medical expert as saying that the “huge difference” in the nandrolone level in the two tests was unheard of, her fate will largely depend on the Salwan committee report.
