Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju has said that India will file an appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland against the decision of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to suspend the accreditation of National Dope Testing Laboratory.
     
The WADA suspended the National Dope Testing Laboratory's  (NDTL) accreditation for six months in a massive blow to the country's anti-doping programme, which left the Sports Ministry surprised as it claimed WADA's concerns were duly addressed. Mr. Rijiju said it is disheartening that WADA has taken such a decision after the NDTL had begun a course correction of the issues faced by it in the past.

Rijiju said in a statement that there were some issues in the past. He said, after taking over as Sports Minister, he has taken cognizance of those issues and a course correction has been initiated. The Minister said, the Sports Ministry will appeal against this ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sports in Lausanne and the process of appeal is already underway.